PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb was featured on Radio Boston where he discussed the recent bylaw in Brookline, Massachusetts that was introduced in 2020 and was just recently upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The ban on tobacco in Brookline, MA for those born on or after January 1st, 2000 is a first-in-the-nation law […]
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PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb is quoted in a new Boston Globe article on the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Brookline’s Nicotine Free Generation law to phase out tobacco sales. Others have approved more aggressive measures; two California cities — Manhattan Beach and Beverly Hills — banned the sale of all tobacco products, for example. But Brookline is
Northeastern University Distinguished Professor of Law and President of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, Richard Daynard, published an op-ed in The Hill on December 6, 2022, laying out the importance of punitive damages in civil justice to protect public health. The article references a billion-dollar punitive damages verdict in a Massachusetts tobacco case from September
On September 6, 2022, attorneys general from 33 states announced a tentative settlement of their joint investigation of the company involving cash payments to the states of $438.5 million over several years. PHAI’s executive director, Mark Gottlieb, discussed the settlement on NBC News NOW the following morning. That short interview can be seen here.
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Today, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) took the first step in launching a public health class action lawsuit in Massachusetts against Juul Labs, the makers of the most popular e-cigarette in the United States, for designing and marketing its product to appeal to and addict adolescents. This is the first such case brought against
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By Edward L. Sweda, Jr., PHAI Senior Attorney As I approached the Greater Richmond Convention Center on the partly cloudy morning of Thursday, May 18, 2017, thoughts of sub-freezing temperatures and snowstorms never entered my mind. But, before the morning gave way to the afternoon, I realized that I had just seen dozens of snowflakes. As
On May 23, 2016, the widow and children of baseball great Tony Gwynn filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Altria Group alleging that the manufacturers of Skoal smokeless tobacco’s negligence, fraud, defective design, and failure-to-warn caused the death of the Hall of Famer in 2014. Richard Daynard, PHAI’s president and University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern
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By Edward L. Sweda, Jr. When Reynolds American International (RAI) President and CEO Susan M. Cameron told the company’s 2016 annual shareholders meeting that it is “always a pleasure to report good news,” this shareholder was reminded of a similar message: “Alive with Pleasure.” That ubiquitous advertising slogan for Newport cigarettes – which RAI acquired
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A Florida jury awarded $13 million to the children of a smoker who died from lung disease after smoking for decades. Read the complete story here on Law 360.
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