ASH Daily News for 07/10/2003
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ASH Daily News
7 October 2003
HEADLINES
McTear case to be heard today
Call for retrial
Tax increase leaves tobacconists fuming
Disgruntled BAT worker tears into cigarette packets
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McTear case to be heard today
Britain's first "smoking trial" - brought against Imperial Tobacco on behalf of a man who died from lung cancer - is due to open in Edinburgh today.
The outcome could determine whether other litigation by people who claim to have suffered smoking-related diseases finds its way into English and Scottish courts, which have not seen the wave of litigation that has hit tobacco companies in the US. An effort by the Leigh Day law firm to bring a group action on behalf of lung cancer sufferers against Imperial and Gallaher collapsed in 1999, following a ruling that many of the alleged victims had brought their claims too late.
Lawyers for the claimants said it was very difficult to assemble a group of alleged victims and organise a claim in the three years allowed.
Full article:
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=031007000405
Source: Financial Times, 7 October 2003
Call for retrial
Philip Morris is demanding a retrial of a case in which nearly £50m was awarded to the estate of a long-term smoker who died of lung cancer. The cigarette maker wants an Oregon court to reconsider its verdict in the Williams-Branch case after the US Supreme Court granted the right to an appeal.
Source: Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2003
Tax increase leaves tobacconists fuming
France's time-honoured pursuits of protesting and smoking combined to disrupt traffic on the Côte d'Azur and across northern France yesterday. The country's tobacconists were venting their fury over draconian tax increases.
The demonstrations, near the borders with Monaco and Belgium, were part of a campaign by the 34,000 owners of bureaux de tabac, the state- licensed outlets founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, against the Government's efforts to break the French love of nicotine.
The tobacconists, who hold a monopoly on tobacco sales, claim that the Government is threatening their livelihood with taxes that will raise cigarette prices by 50 per cent by the end of the year.
In the past fortnight thousands of protesting tobacconists have snarled traffic on motorways, treating captive motorists to lectures on the bankruptcy that threatens them because of much lower prices across the border. Last week they demonstrated in Paris outside the Ministry of Health after Jean-François Mattei, the Minister, outraged libertarians by saying that he wanted to turn France into a no-smoking zone.
Full story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-844924,00.html
Source: The Times, 7 October 2003
Disgruntled BAT worker tears into cigarette packets
[Full power, dude!]
A worker at a doomed North-East cigarette factory has been disciplined after he committed an act of sabotage.
The man, who is not being named, deliberately damaged cigarette packets at British American Tobacco's Rothmans plant, in Darlington. It is believed that the employee, who worked in the case fill department, has been sacked following the incident.
The factory launched an investigation into the damage and discovered that a quantity of packets had been destroyed, but that no cigarettes were ruined.
During the internal probe, the culprit was uncovered and has now been subjected to disciplinary action by the company.
A large number of cigarette packets had to be checked for damage.
Source: Northern Echo, 6 October 2003
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Tel 020 7739 5902 Fax 020 7613 0531
ASH Daily News
7 October 2003
HEADLINES
McTear case to be heard today
Call for retrial
Tax increase leaves tobacconists fuming
Disgruntled BAT worker tears into cigarette packets
FULL TEXT
McTear case to be heard today
Britain's first "smoking trial" - brought against Imperial Tobacco on behalf of a man who died from lung cancer - is due to open in Edinburgh today.
The outcome could determine whether other litigation by people who claim to have suffered smoking-related diseases finds its way into English and Scottish courts, which have not seen the wave of litigation that has hit tobacco companies in the US. An effort by the Leigh Day law firm to bring a group action on behalf of lung cancer sufferers against Imperial and Gallaher collapsed in 1999, following a ruling that many of the alleged victims had brought their claims too late.
Lawyers for the claimants said it was very difficult to assemble a group of alleged victims and organise a claim in the three years allowed.
Full article:
http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=031007000405
Source: Financial Times, 7 October 2003
Call for retrial
Philip Morris is demanding a retrial of a case in which nearly £50m was awarded to the estate of a long-term smoker who died of lung cancer. The cigarette maker wants an Oregon court to reconsider its verdict in the Williams-Branch case after the US Supreme Court granted the right to an appeal.
Source: Daily Telegraph, 7 October 2003
Tax increase leaves tobacconists fuming
France's time-honoured pursuits of protesting and smoking combined to disrupt traffic on the Côte d'Azur and across northern France yesterday. The country's tobacconists were venting their fury over draconian tax increases.
The demonstrations, near the borders with Monaco and Belgium, were part of a campaign by the 34,000 owners of bureaux de tabac, the state- licensed outlets founded by Napoleon Bonaparte, against the Government's efforts to break the French love of nicotine.
The tobacconists, who hold a monopoly on tobacco sales, claim that the Government is threatening their livelihood with taxes that will raise cigarette prices by 50 per cent by the end of the year.
In the past fortnight thousands of protesting tobacconists have snarled traffic on motorways, treating captive motorists to lectures on the bankruptcy that threatens them because of much lower prices across the border. Last week they demonstrated in Paris outside the Ministry of Health after Jean-François Mattei, the Minister, outraged libertarians by saying that he wanted to turn France into a no-smoking zone.
Full story:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-844924,00.html
Source: The Times, 7 October 2003
Disgruntled BAT worker tears into cigarette packets
[Full power, dude!]
A worker at a doomed North-East cigarette factory has been disciplined after he committed an act of sabotage.
The man, who is not being named, deliberately damaged cigarette packets at British American Tobacco's Rothmans plant, in Darlington. It is believed that the employee, who worked in the case fill department, has been sacked following the incident.
The factory launched an investigation into the damage and discovered that a quantity of packets had been destroyed, but that no cigarettes were ruined.
During the internal probe, the culprit was uncovered and has now been subjected to disciplinary action by the company.
A large number of cigarette packets had to be checked for damage.
Source: Northern Echo, 6 October 2003
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