to my knowledge the answer is not in the USA. Jurors in the fifties fealt that people chose to smoke, therefore were responsible for the outcomes. The initial cases were not tried under the jurisprudence that exists today The surgeon general's warning, plus tacit approval of use by the US government in the form of taxation and no effort to ban cigarette use protected the tobacco industry for a long time. Also,jurors recently are not sympathetic to people who continue their smoking even though everyone in our society is plainly aware of the danger to health. the federal government as yet to ban cigarette smoking accept in public places.
---- Gibbons Chris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On the subject of legal challenges/corporate manslaughter etc....Did any of
> the tobacco execs do time back in the day for concealing safety info? Or
> was this just another case of ‘fine and forget’?
>
> Chris Gibbons
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