On Redirect, Eubanks started with the SIDS material, establishing that Monograph 13 and the IARC study found maternal smoking causes SIDS.
Judge Kessler asked, “ETS causes SIDS?”
Samet here again showed his habitual exactitude: ” I have been careful to say _maternal_ smoking causes SIDS. Mothers often continue to smoke after birth, and there is some […]
Defense lawyer Michael B. Minton (Lorillard) began to examine Samet on his position that maternal smoking is a cause of SIDS.
He introduced 2002 testimony from a Dr. Weissmann, wherein Weissmann said that right now, he couldn’t quite say maternal smoking causes SIDS–but he was close.
Minton asked the perennial question, “Can you say categorically that […]
On Wednesday and Thursday, Defense tried to establish grounds for the idea that low tar cigarettes may have health benefits–benefits that actually helped slow the rise in lung cancer death rates, even though epidemiological studies have not found lower rates of lung cancer tied the advent of low-tar/low nicotine cigarettes. This may be, his presentation […]
Testimony of William Farone
Farone, William A. Ph.D.
US Expert & Fact Witness
Since 1987, Dr. Farone, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Power Concepts, Inc., a chemical technology and biotechnology company that he founded, in Irvine, CA. Applied Power Concept’s areas of specialty include alternate energy production and […]