Big Tobacco Pushes Back Against Cigarette Warnings

You haven’t seen cigarette ads since the sixties when Big Tobacco sponsored shows like “The Flintstones,” and “I Love Lucy.” All of that stopped in 1970 when Congress banned cigarette ads from media, but you will begin to see Big Tobacco ads again. Under a court order, makers will be forced to advertise the dangers…

E-cigarettes (E-cigs) have become all the rage in recent years, particularly among millennials. “Vaping,” as it’s called, referring to the fact that its tobacco vapor that is inhaled as opposed to nicotine smoke, has been heralded as a healthier way to feed the habit instead of smoking or chewing tobacco. But, recent studies have indicated…

In the past couple of years vaping, or smoking electronic cigarettes, has become very popular. Companies behind e-cigs have managed to make them sound like a “healthy” alternative to smoking regular cigarettes. Of course, this is silly. Smoking is smoking. There isn’t a “healthy” way to do something that’s bad for you. At the end…

In a ruling that experts are saying re-affirms Florida’s landmark “Engle” decision, the Florida Supreme Court upheld a $2.5 million tobacco litigation verdict from a Tampa jury that was given to the survivors of a smoker who died in 2008. In a six to one decision, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal made by the…

The 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee has upheld a $15 million wrongful death award to the family of an Edgewater woman whose cigarette smoking led to her lung cancer death in 1994. The Lorillard Tobacco Company had appealed a Duval County jury’s verdict that had found the tobacco company was 65 percent responsible…

A federal judge has ruled that tobacco companies must admit in product warnings that they deceived the public about smoking dangers and manipulated tobacco products to make them more addictive. The U.S. District Judge in Washington had ruled in 2006 that tobacco companies violated federal racketeering laws by scheming to deceive the public for decades…