Top anti-smoking lawyer says Ireland should sue Big Tobacco and vaping firms

Anti-tobacco firm says ‘vaping has become next public health disaster’

Vaping products easily fly under the radar as they use new-media advertising tactics such as Instagram influencers

The Irish state should sue Big Tobacco and consider litigation against vaping companies which target minors with their marketing, one of the world’s top anti-tobacco litigators has said.

Jodi Flowers of Motley Rice – the legal firm depicted in the 1999 Russell Crowe film The Insider - told The Sunday Business Post that her company had a growing number of clients considering cases against vaping companies in the US.

Flowers – whose firm ...