Fifteen months ago, lawyers and advocates in the Netherlands filed a complaint with the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (DPPS), asking DPPS to file charges against the four major tobacco manufacturers that operate in the Netherlands (Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and Imperial Tobacco Benelux).

Accusers confident that appeal to the court will be successful

The Netherlands Cancer Institute files a report against four tobacco manufacturers that are active in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) is the first hospital/research institution in the Netherlands to join the growing coalition of individual patients and anti-tobacco and health organizations that already filed reports against the tobacco industry.

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.

Black Lives/Black Lungs investigates how the tobacco industry sold its products to black people, specifically the selling of menthol cigarettes, and how that played into propelling stereotypes about black people.

ASH worked with Sick of Smoking on this video to highlight a Dutch criminal complaint against the tobacco industry for murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, attempted manslaughter, inflicting and attempting severe physical harm and deliberately harming health.

Lawyers in 17 countries are following Dutch lawyers’ lead in suing the tobacco industry for attempted murder or aggravated assault. Anti-smoking organizations and lawyers from 15 countries gathered in Geneva recently to discuss the Dutch appraoch to the, until now, unique case, AD reports.

Sick of Smoking is receiving more and more support from organizations that are joining the legal challenge against the tobacco industry also from the Dutch Federation of Cancer Patient Organizations (NFK).

According to a new study by the National Cancer Institute in the US, there is ‘very strong evidence’ that the tiny ventilation holes in cigarettes contribute to an increase in adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer. The ‘tampered cigarettes’, as lawyer Bénédicte Ficq calls cigarettes with invisible holes designed in the filters, do […]

The Dutch Cancer Society (DCS) has welcomed the legal challenge mounted by lawyer Bénédicte Ficq on behalf of Anne Marie van Veen, Lia Breed and the Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation. This week the DCS also filed a declaration against the four largest tobacco manufacturers in the Netherlands. The case lists grevious bodily harm (resulting in […]

Veel rokers voelen zich zelf verantwoordelijk voor hun gedrag, maar dat is niet terecht. De video legt precies uit hoe dat zit.