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...Store 23 philosophy extends beyond the store itself: "It's in the essence of its very products. Anything you buy from Store 23 will only function for 23 hours a day at best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same time that Store 24 transforms into Store...
Like a Band-Aid being slowly, painfully pulled from a hair-covered forearm, tobacco companies in the past few years have faced a steady succession of product liability cases. Now a federal judge wants to pull the whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ordered plaintiffs' lawyers and tobacco companies to discuss a single settlement to end all tobacco litigation in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The so-called "tobacco wars" have been a piecemeal affair so far, with many different types of plaintiffs dealing with different laws in different...
...this keeps up, we may just start pitying the tobacco companies. In the latest indication of just how far the political and legal climates have swung against Big Tobacco in recent years, the New York Senate voted Monday to require all cigarettes sold in the state to feature self-extinguishing paper. Ostensibly, the regulation is a way to reduce fires (cigarettes are responsible for roughly one in four fire-related deaths in the U.S.), but the bigger story here is that it's become popular for politicians to make it more expensive and complicated to produce, market and sell cigarettes...
...Self-extinguishing cigarettes are not a new idea. Philip Morris developed the technology in the 1980s, but has only recently decided to begin test-marketing it on some of its less popular brands. Tobacco firms have resisted using the safer cigarettes because they believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could...
...Certainly the anti-tobacco forces will utilize this information to make the case for damages because they are so antagonistic toward Big Tobacco," says Sanders. "But to make that case, you would have to prove that cigarettes are defective. Many products are dangerous without being defective. The same arguments made about the fire hazard of cigarettes could be made about candles, but we don't hear that very often." Still, it's a sure bet that when, as expected, New York governor George Pataki signs off on the measure, other states will soon follow. Nobody, except for a few politicians...