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...frustrating for us to find out secondhand from a Harvard publication about an agreement that we thought we had already solidified," she said...
...tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious but never evil. Our parents and our grandparents worried about polio epidemics. Today the great public-health crisis is the secondhand smoke from thy neighbor's Marlboro...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and NORMA BROIN, 42, lead plaintiff in the $5 billion class action filed on behalf of 60,000 flight attendants seeking damages for secondhand-smoke-related health problems; in Miami. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard agreed to pay $300 million to set up a research foundation on cancer...
MIAMI: The husband-and-wife legal team of Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt were the big winners Friday, as Big Tobacco settled its first-ever courtroom battle over secondhand smoke. The industry paid the plaintiffs? legal costs, and gave $300 million to bankroll a foundation that will research their illnesses...
...Unlike secondhand smoke, secondhand booze is a world-class killer. Drunk driving alone kills 17,000 people a year. And alcohol's influence extends far beyond driving: it contributes to everything from bar fights to domestic violence. One study found that 44% of assailants in cases of marital abuse had been drinking. Another study found that 60% of wife batterers had been under the influence. Whatever claims you make against tobacco, you'd have quite a time looking for cases of the nicotine-crazed turning on their wives with a butcher knife...