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Power and Obama—both graduates of Harvard Law School—were introduced to one another by Peter W. Galbraith, a former ambassador to Croatia and the son of Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...
...attached to cigarettes was John Galbraith, 69, that even while hospitalized with lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema, he would slip off his oxygen mask to sneak a smoke. Before death ended his 51-year, three-pack-a-day habit in 1982, Galbraith had filed a $1 million product-liability suit against R.J. Reynolds, contending that the company that marketed the Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily...
...Santa Barbara trial is certain to be a courtroom drama. The case involves John Galbraith, a former insurance company administrator who for 50 years smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day. In 1982 Galbraith died, at 69. The official cause of death was heart disease and emphysema. He spent the last years of his life hooked up to an oxygen machine. According to his family's lawyers, Galbraith was once found removing the mask in order to take a quick puff. Galbraith's widow and three children are suing R.J. Reynolds for making a defective product...
...industry has never paid a cent" in the similar cases that have been filed over the years, declares John Strauch, the lead attorney for Reynolds. The company's lawyers are expected to argue that Galbraith freely chose to smoke and thus cannot hold the company responsible for his illness. Nor will they concede that smoking can cause cancer. It "is still an open scientific question," Strauch says...
Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith met his wife Catherine, a 1936 graduate of Radcliffe, when she was his student...