Central to some of the Juul lawsuits is the allegation that, particularly in its early days, Juul used young, attractive models in ads and promoted its products heavily on social networks such as Instagram, knowing that they are frequented by minors. “Not only has litigation against the tobacco industry resulted in tens of billions of dollars in settlements and verdicts, but it’s also cast a …
Tobacco is a crop with many enemies, not all of them human. In the Coastal Plains region of eastern North Carolina, the heart of the state’s flue-cured tobacco production, growers deal with a leaf-damaging soil bacteria colorfully named Granville wilt. If you let them, various aphids will feast on tobacco leaves as they grow.
BOSTON (AP) — A decade after a group of smokers from Massachusetts sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury. Smokers in the class-action lawsuit allege Philip Morris manufactured a defective cigarette knowing it could have made a safer product with fewer carcinogens. The closely watched case heads to …