Tobacco Control Resource Center  
   The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
   http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/

Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents  
   News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation.
   http://ash.org.uk/html/press/020411.html

Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco  
   LA Times article explores why once-secret tobacco industry letters, memos, and reports are hurting the industry in court and opening the eyes of the public.
   http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html

Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control  
   Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
   http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69

Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association  
   Supports and represents those who fight on behalf of consumers injured or killed by tobacco. Membership is open to those with a substantial interest in fighting consumer cases.
   http://www.ttlaonline.com/

The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability  
   Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in court for the tobacco industry.
   http://www.asam.org/info/ama2.htm

Blaming Tobacco's Victims  
   Op-ed examines society's tendency to blame smokers, and explains why juries are less willing to do so: tobacco industry recruiting of kids, decades-long efforts to cloud the issue, and engineering of product for addiction.
   http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html

Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson  
   Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
   http://courttv.com/trials/tobacco/

Court TV - Tobacco on Trial  
   Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
   http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html

Smoked Out  
   An essay by Harvard Law professor Kip Viscusi arguing that the settlement of the lawsuit against tobacco firms didn't penalize those firms, but instead penalized smokers, the so-called victims.
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/857476.html

19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project  
   Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco.
   http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html

The Jesse Williams Case  
   Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
   http://www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html

Probative Production -- Boeken Trial  
   The trial team that won the Boeken trial is profiled.
   http://home.att.net/~sparklex/ppweb2.html

The Shredding of BAT's defense: McCabe vs. British American Tobacco Australia  
   Policy journal analyzes tobacco industry destruction of evidence committed in litigation of an Australian smoker.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/3/271

Florida Tobacco Litigation Symposium: Fact, Law, Policy, and Significance  
   Transcript of panel discussion on tobacco ligitagion, focusing on public health benefits, with emphasis on Florida's suit against the tobacco industry.
   http://www.law.fsu.edu/journals/lawreview/frames/254/tobatxt.html

Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare  
   Profile of Cheryl Perry, an epidemiology professor at the University of Minnesota, who become an expert in the industry's own words on promoting cigarettes to children.
   http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/junepg2.htm

Light Cigarettes Smokers Sue Tobacco Industry  
   News article covers how the tobacco industry designed and promoted "light" cigarettes to create an safer image, but not a safer product.
   http://www.detnews.com/2002/health/0203/25/-449181.htm

Tobacco Scam: Litigation Risks  
   Outlines the legal liabilities for business owners that permit indoor smoking, and warns why tobacco-sponsored ventilation programs will not protect the business owner from those liabilities.
   http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/fake/fake_lr.cfm

Statement of Professor G. Robert Blakey  
   Notre Dame Law School professor outlines the case against the tobacco industry in both lay terms and legal prose.
   http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te090501f-blakey.htm

Are Punitive Damages Enough  
   Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning.
   http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns/Are_punitive_damages_.shtml

Gallop Poll for Philip Morris on Surgeon General's Warning  
   In public the tobacco industry says "everyone knew" the risks of smoking. But this 1973 survey secretly done for Philip Morris showed that only 3.1% of smokers were aware of the Surgeon General's health warning.
   http://www.tobacco.org/resources/documents/73gallup.html

The Smoking Gun  
   Time article on tobacco litigation in Europe.
   http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2003/0113/cover/pisani.html

A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer  
   Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies.
   http://slate.msn.com/id/1005187/

Tobacco Litigation Worldwide  
   130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control.
   http://www.tobakk.no/materiell/pdf/litigation.pdf

Big Tobacco's Nemesis  
   Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter.
   http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml

The Case Against the Tobacco Companies  
   Outlines decades of tobacco industry campaigns designed to mislead the public about cigarettes, resulting in extraordinary profits for the industry and devastating consequences for the public's health.
   http://www.thememoryhole.org/corp/us-v-philip-morris.htm

How the Tobacco Industry Lost its Attorney-Client Privilege  
   Legal analysis concludes the tobacco industry's fraudulent manipulation of the attorney-client privilege was intended to cover up scientific information the industry had about the product.
   http://www.acprivilege.com/articles/article4.html

Interview with G. Robert Blakey  
   In an interview, Robert Blankey, a former federal prosecuter and the author of the federal RICO statute, compares the cigarette industry to the Mafia and recommends using RICO laws to criminally prosecute the tobacco industry.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/blakey.html

Lorillard Tobacco Company Counts on Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Cancer Death Lawsuit  
   Coverage in the Kansas City Star about a major tobacco industry law firm.
   http://kcstar.com/standing/stories/shook1.htm

Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking?  
   Discussion of documents obtained through U.S. litigation against tobacco companies, and how it affects the potential for similar litigation in Canada. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
   http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/11/1608

Tobacco On Trial  
   Blog covers the U.S. Department of Justice case against the tobacco industry.
   http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/