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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.
Read more >>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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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.
Read more >>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 […]
Read more >>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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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”.
Read more >>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.
Read more >>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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