Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker
MIAMI - CHRISTINE ARMARIO (AP)-- A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the ...
MIAMI - CHRISTINE ARMARIO (AP)-- A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the ...
Mother Jones | Tom Jacobs | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living
In June, President Obama signed a law requiring tobacco companies to post large, graphic warnings on cigarette packs. However, new research suggests t...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
What's sad is that these scaremongering tactics are so effective. They make it easy to forget that we rank #37 in world health.
TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
It was a tough week for the cigarette, and also for Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and three of his colleagues, who received huge campaign contributions from cigarette makers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media
As the New York Times reports this morning, a bill allowing the Food and Drug Administration to "impose potentially strict new controls" on the tobacc...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit ...
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy
Build a $1.5-ish billion taxpayer-funded stadium, charge those same taxpayers $2600 to see a game, don't create the promised park for local kids (because they're poor). Now look around. Guess what? You're rich!
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
What the NY Times discovered was that Ms. Gillibrand represented, zealously, a tobacco company. Their case is overwhelming. The Senator is not qualified to hold public office.
Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
The new FDA legislation would serve as a Marlboro Preservation Act. The tobacco industry will be footing the bill for the alleged regulation of its own products. The foxes will be guarding the henhouse.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Mercenaries are a fact of life, as is marketing. Changing your name does not change what you have done, but changing the Commander In Chief can lead to new restrictions.
Robert Weissman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand — Two of the world's largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies i...
The Media Consortium | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
In one of today's more bizarre health stories, we find tobacco giant Philip Morris likening itself to the NAACP in order to get out of paying compensation to smokers.
Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Philip Morris USA filed suit against 105 New Jersey and New York retailers Wednesday, alleging they sold counterfeit versions of Marlboro brand cigare...
Posted 11.20.2009 | Business