Personal Injury Law

Chantix Maker Partnering With New Anti-Smoking Vaccine
Washington, DC: It's all over the television now?ads for Chantix that depict a smiling, real-life Chantix user going about her everyday business without a cigarette between her fingers, while the announcer rattles off a warning about Chantix side effects, including suicide and aggression...

One way or another, he was getting a cigarette
In Salt Lake City, a man is accused of punching another guy who refused to let him bum a cigarette. So the defendant allegedly smacked him in the kisser and grabbed the cigarette that was already in his mouth.

FTC Releases Reports on Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Sales and Marketing Expenditures
News release: "The amount spent on cigarette advertising and promotion by the five largest cigarette companies in the United States...

Holographic will on cigarette pack
After Decedent?s death, a cardboard cigarette carton was admitted for probate as Decedent?s will. The cigarette carton named beneficiaries of Decedent?s estate (none of whom were heirs of Decedent), contained the Decedent?s signature, and had the heading ?FIRST AND LAST...

Wrongful Death Verdict For $13.8 Million Against Cigarette Maker
Georgia injury lawyers have not forgotten the sworn testimony the CEO?s of all of the major tobacco companies gave Congress a few years ago. Who could forget when these prominent men raised their right hands and swore that ?Nicotine is...

Nutcase Sandiacre UK Police Ticket Man For Dropping Cigarette Ash On Street
SANDIACRE, UK - Stunned smoker Daniel Slaney ended up in court ? for dropping cigarette ash on a pavement. The computer programmer, 37, was having a fag as he walked to work. But two council wardens accused him of throwing his cigarette end away and handed him a £40 fine for littering in Sandiacre, near Nottingham...

Ind. Decisions - 7th Circuit issues one Indiana opinion today
In Nick's Cigarette City, Inc. v. U.S. (ND Ind., Judge Lozano), a 17-page opinion, Judge Manion writes:Nick?s Cigarette City, Inc. (?Cigarette City?) brought this action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana...

Kugel Mesh Manufacturer Receives FDA Warning Letter
Rockville, MD: Based on all the problems patients have experienced with the Kugel Mesh hernia patch it should come as no surprise that the maker of the patch, C.R. Bard, recently received a warning letter concerning its plant in Puerto Rico...

Is Obama still smoking while hiding and denying it
I've written very recently of my sympathy for Sen. Obama's difficulty in trying to quit his cigarette habit. It literally took a heart attack three years ago to get me to stop, and even so, the last time I had a craving for a cigarette was ...

Clip From Interview of Margaret Sanger By Mike Wallace on 9/21/57
See it here. Read the transcript here. Warning: Sexist cigarette ads ahoy, and Sanger’s “quip” about smoking at the end of the interview is disturbing.