Consumer Law

Give the Tobacco Companies a Kick on Kick Butts Day!
BoardBuzz is happy to announce that March 25, 2009 marks the fourteenth anniversary of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ Kick Butts Day, a day for kids everywhere to stand up to the tobacco industry and let them know that their actions toward youth are unacceptable...

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 13 Years Later
Kaiser - Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 13 Years...

Tobacco bans change social norms for kids
A new study out of Massachusetts shows that smoking bans in restaurants effectively discourage young teenagers from becoming smokers, and suggests that restaurant smoking bans are even more powerful than the effect of whether a parent or close friend smokes...

UAE issues anti-tobacco law (MalaysiaNews.net)
Abu Dhabi, Jan 9 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued a law restricting the use of tobacco and its marketing, WAM news agency reported.

FDA tobacco regulation legislation to reach Senate floor Tuesday
CQ Today (6/2, Armstrong) reports that Senate legislation authorizing the FDA to regulate tobacco (HR 1256) "will come to the Senate floor Tuesday, after two committee chairmen persuaded Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to cancel a Tuesday cloture vote on a railroad antitrust bill (S 146) that was the only item on the calendar ahead of the tobacco bill...

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
The tobacco industry has had a long and checkered history in American business, law, and society. The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL), a digital collection of the Tobacco Control Archives at the University of California at San Francisco, contains more than 8 million searchable documents "created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities...

Vytorin Marketing
alleged false claims in marketing campaign.

Smokeless Tobacco Increases Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack
Smokeless Tobacco Increases Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack

Philip Morris
Jury Decides Against Big Tobacco

Florida Medicaid
Limiting Coverage of Drugs for Kids

Pottery Barn
Recalls Kids Metal Water Bottles

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Facing Potential Class Action