Sentences with phrase «sue tobacco companies»
Some observers have suggested several Atlantic provinces may soon band together and proceed as a unified front rather than individually sue the tobacco companies.
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As an example: When Virginia sued the tobacco companies and was awarded the huge settlements they set up a commission to reinvest that money in the tobacco farming areas in order to help the economy there (since it was dependent on tobacco farming).
But when state and U.S. prosecutors successfully sued the tobacco companies for systematically misleading the public about the risks their products caused, no one's free speech rights were infringed.
Federal and state prosecutors eventually sued the tobacco companies.
Not exact matches
Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.
Look back at how the tobacco companies made huge «donations» and got protected from being sued.
Maybe some day someone will sue the dairy industry like we did with tobacco companies.
It was clear the tobacco industry had met its match when the surgeon general made smoking a national health issue, when the mass media and entertainment industry abandoned the Marlboro man, when juries discovered that companies were responsible for the lungs of their consumers, and when powerful figures on Capitol Hill eschewed donations from tobacco magnates in favor of those contributed by trial lawyers who made billions from suing them.
Despite this, the tobacco companies have been successfully sued for many million of dollars, on the basis that tobacco is dangerous and addictive and the companies denied this and hid evidence of the dangers from the public for many years, as below.
«Imagine if I could get ten or 15 cities to all sue and put the same pressure on the oil companies that we did with tobacco companies and create some kind of massive settlement,» he said.