| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| 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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