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The criminal case: How is it Doing?

Case against the tobacco industry: an overview 13.12.2018

Case against the tobacco industry: an overview

Over one year ago, lawyer Benedicte Ficq filed a criminal complaint against the tobacco industry on behalf of two lung patients and the Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation. This article provides an overview of the lead-up to the case and subsequent developments.

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Attempted murder, manslaughter, grievous bodily harm and falsification of documents. 01.03.2017

Attempted murder, manslaughter, grievous bodily harm and falsification of documents.

Lawyer Benedicte Ficq of legal firm Meijering Van Kleef Ficq & Van der Werf filed charges  (28th of September 2016) with the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office, on behalf of the Dutch Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation, lung cancer patient Anne Marie van Veen and COPD patient Lia Breed, against four tobacco manufacturers that are active in […]

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The Dutch complaint against the tobacco industry. 28.02.2017

The Dutch complaint against the tobacco industry.

Containing 30 pages as well as annexes, the documentation presented offers detailed evidence of the charges. The declaration is also available in Spanish and German.  

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Personal stories

A cigarette is a product of death, designed to defraud the smoker. 01.03.2017

A cigarette is a product of death, designed to defraud the smoker.

Dr. Jeffrey Wigand is the highest-ranking whistleblower in the tobacco industry. His story received international attention due to the film ‘The Insider’, featuring Russell Crowe as Jeffrey Wigand.

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IF YOU SMOKE, YOU MUTATE 02.01.2017

IF YOU SMOKE, YOU MUTATE

Rene Bernards is a scientist affiliated with the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. He explains what smoking does to people’s cells. They mutate. Someone who smokes a pack a day for a year can count on 150 of those mutations—in every cell—in the lungs. This has been established by international research. “The good thing about this research […]

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It is bizarrely addictive. I think that cigarettes should fall under the hard drugs law. 07.09.2016

It is bizarrely addictive. I think that cigarettes should fall under the hard drugs law.

Fighter Marcel Verhoef (50): They placed a pin in my leg from my pelvis to my knee. That is a good solution, since at least I can walk again, sit down and lie down. The large bone in my leg was completely eaten away by metastases from my lung cancer.

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News: What is happening right now?

Complainants against tobacco industry want ‘partisan’ judge to step down 26.09.2018

Complainants against tobacco industry want ‘partisan’ judge to step down

The parties hoping to take the tobacco industry to court have called on Jan Wolter Wabeke to step down as chair of the judicial council that is handling the case. During a private dinner, Wabeke is alleged to have remarked disparagingly that “smoking is everybody’s personal responsibility”.

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RIVM measures much higher levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes 13.06.2018

RIVM measures much higher levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes

Tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide (TNCO) levels measured in accordance with the Canadian Intense (CI) method are at least twice as high as the levels measured in accordance with the prescribed ISO method.

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Netherlands withdraws from international cigarette advice committee: report 09.05.2018

Netherlands withdraws from international cigarette advice committee: report

The Netherlands is immediately withdrawing from an international committee that gives the tobacco industry advice on measuring nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide in their products, according to newspaper Trouw.

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