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The success of massive class action suits against tobacco companies has encouraged litigators to try a similar approach against firearms manufacturers. [Pg.86]

By the end of the year, more than 20 cities file class action suits against gun makers, adopting a strategy similar to that used successfully against the big tobacco companies. [Pg.107]

Time to Aim Our Outrage at the Gun Lobby. National Catholic Reporter, vol. 34, April 3, 1998, p. 36. Recites the sad litany of school shootings such as those at West Paducah, Kentucky, and Jonesboro, Arkansas. The article says that it is time to react as Americans would react to deaths in a senseless war or as they have reacted to the tobacco companies—and take on the gun lobby. [Pg.212]

Nicotine in tobacco has always been used for medicinal purposes. Nicotine solutions made from soaking tobacco leaves in water have been used as pesticides for several hundred years. In modern times, numerous pharmaceutical companies have explored nicotines use for treating diseases. Nicotines most prevalent medicinal use is for smoking cessation in the form of alternate delivery systems such as gums and dermal patches. Nicotine is used medically for numerous conditions and its use is being explored in additional areas including pain relievers, attention deficit disorder medications and medications associated with Alzheimer s disease, Parkinson disease, colitis, herpes, and tuberculosis. Because of nicotines potential therapeutic use, several large tobacco companies have developed pharmaceutical divisions. [Pg.193]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) begins to take more of an interest in cigarette advertising. It rules that tobacco companies cannot claim that filtered cigarettes are safer for health. [Pg.86]

After a legislative battle between anti-smoking activists and tobacco companies, Congress requires that a warning label be placed on cigarette packs. The first, tepid version of the warning says that smoking may be hazardous to health. [Pg.86]

Required cigarette warning labels are changed to read that smoking is dangerous to health. Cigarette ads disappear from television and radio after tobacco companies are required to finance antismoking commercials if they continue to advertise. [Pg.87]

At the same time, tobacco companies were launching a massive public relations effort to persuade governments not to enact laws limiting tobacco promotion and advertising. As the industry faces efforts within the United States to decrease tobacco consumption, it has attempted to develop new and larger markets in other nations. These nations also face the threat of trade sanctions by the United States if they resist the tobacco industry s expansion. [Pg.369]


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