TY - JOUR T1 - Litigation: a tobacco lawyer's view JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 9 LP - 9 DO - 10.1136/tc.9.1.9d VL - 9 IS - 1 A2 - , Y1 - 2000/03/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/9.6.abstract N2 - Tobacco was on the menu in Geneva, Switzerland last October, when around 30 high powered lawyers gathered at the Hotel Metropole, not far from the headquarters of the World Health Organization. It was the monthly meeting of the Association of International Business Lawyers, and the speaker was Bruce Ventura of the US (now Japanese owned) tobacco giant RJ Reynolds. His topic was “Smoking and health litigation”, a review of the industry's legal headaches past and present.After giving a brief history of US tobacco litigation, Mr Ventura reviewed the main categories of litigation: … ER -