Tag: susan rosenblatt
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Lawyers for non-smoking flight attendants who sued cash-rich foundation are punished for it
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Two Miami lawyers sued a multi-million-dollar foundation to help hundreds of non-smoking flight attendants who’d been exposed to toxic secondhand tobacco smoke. They didn’t imagine they’d be punished for it seven years later. -
Tobacco research institute for flight attendants operates in secrecy
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Money from a $300 million fund meant to help flight attendants sickened by secondhand smoke has gone to research clean air for pets, a hospital in Israel and allies of the fund’s managers, according to court documents. -
Florida still a dismal swamp for cigarette makers fighting death and injury claims
By Noreen Marcus
FairWarning
During the 1990s, legal assaults on the tobacco industry spawned the largest and most expensive civil litigation in U.S. history. Explosive revelations from secret internal documents and tobacco whistleblowers became front page news, and inspired the feature film ”The Insider.” After decades of deception, cigarette makers were forced to admit the dangers and addictiveness of smoking.
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