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Clearing the Smoke: Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law LAURENCE H. TRIBE successfully argued a case before the Supreme Court that paved the way for damage suits against the tobacco industry. Tribe represented the family of ROSE CIPOLLONE, who died of lung cancer...
Clearing the Smoke: Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law LAURENCE H. TRIBE successfully argued a case before the Supreme Court that paved the way for damage suits against the tobacco industry. Tribe represented the family of ROSE CIPOLLONE, who died of lung cancer...
...Heilman Brewing Co. learned that the hard way when protests from the black community caused the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to revoke its approval of a potent malt liquor whose primary consumers were expected to be black males. Similar protests caused R.J. Reynolds to snuff out a new cigarette specifically designed to attract black smokers. Those companies are studies "on how not to market a product and how to ignore the community concerned," says Doug Alligood, vice president of special markets for BBDO New York. "Nobody bothered to find out that the black community is really concerned...
...fact that smoking causes lung cancer is so well established that only the tobacco companies still claim to have doubts. Now an Environmental Protection Agency review board, acting on a draft report produced within the agency, says nonsmokers are in danger as well. "Environmental tobacco smoke" -- better known as secondhand smoke -- inhaled by those who associate with smokers leads to about 3,000 cases of lung cancer a year in the U.S. and 300,000 cases of respiratory disease. Conclusion: secondhand smoke should be classified as a major carcinogen, which could lead to even stronger restrictions on smoking in public...
...tobacco industry, predictably, attacked the report, arguing that it unfairly took tobacco's effects on those who smoke and extrapolated to those who don't. The authors counter that the link is valid, but said they would bolster their arguments in the final report, due within a few months, as requested by the board...