UINTED STATES: SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT ORDERS TWO MAJOR TOBACCO COMPANIES TO PAY $20 MILLION TO A WOMAN DYING OF LUNG CANCER

Record ID: 977145

  • Title: UINTED STATES: SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT ORDERS TWO MAJOR TOBACCO COMPANIES TO PAY $20 MILLION TO A WOMAN DYING OF LUNG CANCER
  • Date: 27th March 2000
  • Summary: NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SMOKING (3 SHOTS) 0.31 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 27, 2000) (NBC - NO A CCESS SUA/CNN) 2. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) BOB BROWN, PLAINTIFF ATTORNEY: "Everybody has this general feeling that cigarettes are not healthy, and you should not smoke them; but people do not know, at least many people do not know, including our client, they did not know that there was an extremely high risk of death. "450,000 people a year die from smoking cigarettes, from various diseases, and one out of two heavy long-range smokers will die from cigarettes. That kind of thing the public did not know, and I think the jury was shocked to find out that it was not that cigarettes are bad for you, it was that cigarettes are horrendously risky and lead to death." 1.04 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 3. SV: PEOPLE SMOKING CIGARETTES 1.12 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 27, 2000) (NBC - NO ACCESS USA/CNN/INTERNET) 4. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) WILLIAM OHLEMEYER, PHILIP MORRIS ATTORNEY "We are disappointed. I think it is contrary to common sense that to a certain extent Mrs Whiteley was somebody who smoked cigarettes, every package of cigarettes she smoked came in a package that had a warning, a health warning written by the Congress. "On the other hand until we get to the court of appeals, until they sort out some of the legal issues it will be difficult to know whether the jury was allowed to consider the evidence that should have been considered in connection with her claim, or whether they were actually allowed to consider some things that did not have anything to with her claim that might have influenced the outcome of her trial." 1.49 WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SMOKING (2 SHOTS) 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA AND WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES
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