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Florida Cigarette Case Could Affect Other Products
Southeast News • November 12, 2008
A tobacco lawyer has asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a $545,000 product liability verdict because the ailing smoker who won the judgment wasn't required to prove the company could have ...
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Subject: Personal accountability
He told the justices there are no safe cigarettes but there are safer ones. His client, though, did not offer an alternative design at trial, suggesting instead that Liggett could have switched to cigars, which ordinarily are not inhaled.
...and his client could not have switched to cigars and not inhaled because?
There is absolutely no personal accountability at all anymore...Sure it's hard to quit smoking, but it's a choice to do it or not...