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The Big Tobacco Playbook Comes for Your Oreos
16 Dec 2025 13:01 GMT
… Coca-Cola settled a lawsuit filed by consumer advocates alleging … tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds bought Nabisco; three years later, Philip Morris … taxes have proved to reduce smoking rates, but attempts to … 40 percent of American adults smoked in the 1960s, when …
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Are we near a reckoning on ultraprocessed foods? And is RFK Jr. helping or hindering with that?
28 Dec 2025 11:52 GMT
… consider the San Francisco lawsuit against 11 of the … entity. (A similar federal lawsuit against major food brands … lawsuit doesn’t just have parallels to the actions against tobacco … of litigation. Tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris owned food …
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Plaintiff in $5M Big Tobacco suit pleads case, after defendants seek dismissal
04 Dec 2025 22:23 GMT
… nature.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA Inc., Liggett Group … lung cancer in 2022 after smoking cigarettes for 40 years, … the true risks associated with smoking, since at least the … .
The lawsuit — like many before it — argues the tobacco giants and …
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Fla. appeals court reverses $43M award against Philip Morris
10 Nov 2025 19:29 GMT
… old smoker who died from lung cancer, argued Philip Morris was … a wrongful death lawsuit against Philip Morris on behalf of … she recollected that the tobacco companies represented to her … state court class-action lawsuit against tobacco companies.
The state …
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Another Big Tobacco lawsuit filed in federal court in Springfield, seeks $5 million
12 Nov 2025 03:23 GMT
… man brings a similar lawsuit against Big Tobacco in federal court. … are R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA Inc., Liggett Group … with smoking since at least the 1950s.
The lawsuit samples … has been found in tobacco smoke known to cause cancer …
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WA secures additional $66 million following $3.8 billion tobacco settlement
03 Nov 2025 23:25 GMT
… from the latest settlement with tobacco company Philip Morris, following a multibillion-dollar … pursue additional lawsuits for health-related damages incurred by tobacco use.
“That … youth smokers.
Since the MSA was signed, roughly 50 other tobacco companies …
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Meta, TikTok, and YouTube could be the next big tobacco
28 Oct 2025 14:49 GMT
… ), TikTok, and Snapchat.
The backdrop: lawsuits involving thousands of plaintiffs and … . The tobacco industry remains profitable despite decades of stigma: global smoking rates … .4% in 25 years, yet Philip Morris International reported record revenues of …
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Fla. man blames Big Tobacco for injuries from Zyn product
08 Sep 2025 22:52 GMT
… filed a lawsuit in federal court against tobacco company Philip Morris, alleging its … Dykes filed his lawsuit against Philip Morris International Inc., Philip Morris Global Brands Inc … complaint alleges. “A typical cigarette smoker absorbs 1 mg of nicotine …
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British American Tobacco CFO steps down abruptly
26 Aug 2025 23:12 GMT
… to its H1 update. Smokeless products, meanwhile, now … of BAT, alongside Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco, in March of … 73 billion to settle smoking-related lawsuits in Canada, closing … settlement of outstanding tobacco-related lawsuits under a supervised …
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Mangoceuticals Announces Strategic Entry into High Growth Pouch Industry Through Acquisition of Smokeless Technology IP and Appointment of Tim Corkum Ex Philip Morris Executive to Lead High Growth Pouch Division
25 Apr 2025 13:00 GMT
… smoke-free initiatives across multiple markets during his tenure with Philip Morris … the investigation regarding, and potential lawsuits, claims and actions; the … associated with certain counterparties to lawsuits having significantly greater resources …