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...arguing that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the defendant in this case, knew that cigarette smoking was addictive long before this fact was made public by the U.S. Surgeon General, Belli is not attempting to mitigate somehow his client's responsibility for choosing to smoke cigarettes. Rather he hopes to establish that the company was negligent and withheld crucial information about its product. Automobile companies that manufacture dangerous cars and do not tell their customers about potential safety hazards are held liable for resulting accidents and injuries; why not cigarette companies...
THERE IS NO doubt that cigarette smoking has become a lot less popular since it has been recognized as a serious health hazard. Tobacco companies made a lot of money when people thought it was perfectly safe to smoke a pack or two a day. But prior to the Surgeon General's report cigarette smokers did not choose to begin using an addictive and deadly drug; they chose to use a product that was advertised as being entirely harmless. If tobacco companies made an honest mistake about the health effects of cigarettes, no one can blame them. But if they...
...suit that will go to trial this week in Santa Barbara, Calif., Belli says that he will contend that the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the defendant, knew that cigarette smoking was addictive long before the Surgeon General's report but failed to inform consumers of the risk. He represents the family of John M. Galbraith, an insurance-company executive who died of lung cancer in 1982 at the age of 69, after 50 years of smoking...
...LIVING LEGEND of Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology B.F. Skinner looms large in the philosophy of the plaintiff's case. For they argue, in effect, that the individual is no more than a product of his environment. The cigarette is a strong--albeit pernicious--reinforcer that the tobacco companies have made contingent on the behavior of cigarette-buying. Conveniently, this behavior increases the profits of the tobacco companies. But it also kills people...
...that long-term coffee use is far more dangerous than sporadic caffeine concentrations. Wacker said that the study was "dealing with fairly small numbers" and hence unworthy of alarm. He added that if coffee drinking does cause heart trouble, it is certainly not as dangerous to consumers as tobacco addiction...