ONE UP
US tobacco companies are gearing up to fight a ruling which awarded US $750,000 in damages to a lung cancer patient Grady Carter who smoked for more than 40 years. A six-member jury in Jacksonville, Florida recently passed the verdict against American Tobacco whose cigarettes were smoked by Carter. Until this ruling, the US tobacco industry had prided itself for not having to pay a single penny in damages to anyone claiming to have suffered from smoking cigarettes. Carter's lawyers produced documents which revealed that the company had deliberately concealed information about health risks of smoking.
Related Content
- First food: business of taste
- Judgment of the Supreme Court regarding forest land allotted illegally to private entities, 15/05/2025
- Annual SDG Review 2025: Financial inclusion in the Arab region
- World health statistics 2025: Monitoring health for the SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals
- Child well-being in an unpredictable world
- Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding cutting of trees without permission for constructing a dumping yard in village Pirthla, Palwal district, Haryana, 14/05/2025