Chapter 34 Legal issues

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Philip Morris as of 1994 had won 26 tobacco liability cases without a loss.

Washington Post National Weekly Edition, July 11, 1994, p. 19

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The tobacco industry unsuccessfully sued the Environmental Protection Agency to try

to nullify its report which classified second hand smoke as a "Group A" (or known

human) carcinogen. "They are masters of creating scientific controversy where there

is none": Dr. Gregory Connolly, Mass. Dept. of Public Health. "It's like the Flat Earth

Society suing NASA for publishing photographs showing the Earth is round": Cliff

Douglas, the Advocacy Institute.

SCARC, June 30, 1993

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In tobacco liability cases, the industry has a policy of never settling, regardless of the

merits of individual cases, and of doing everything possible to run up the plaintiff's bill.

One industry lawyer explained, "to paraphrase General Patton, the way we won these

cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money, but by making that other son of a

bitch spend all his."

Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 80

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Flight attendants have filed a $5 billion class action suit against a number of tobacco

companies because of illnesses caused by their exposure to second-hand smoke on

flights before the 1989 smoking ban. Exposure was equivalent to actively smoking

about one cigarette per flight.

New York Times, November 6, 1994, p. A11, and Audio Digest Internal Medicine,

November 3, 1993 (Neal Benowitz)

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