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

Tobacco On Trial
- Blog covers the history of Department of Justice trial against the tobacco industry. Features trial updates, transcripts, original reporting, analysis, and behind the scenes interviews.
- http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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/