Widow loses Tobacco case

mattcky666 · Post by **mattcky666** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:11 am

A widow whose husband died from lung cancer has lost her legal battle against one of the word's biggest tobacco companies.

Margaret McTear claimed Imperial Tobacco failed to warn her husband Alfred that smoking could give him cancer.

Mr McTear began the action against Imperial in 1993 and his wife continued it after his death that year.

Mrs McTear, 60, of Beith, Ayrshire demanded ?500,000 in damages.

Lord Nimmo Smith spent 15 months writing his decision.

Mr McTear, a former telephone installer, began smoking in 1964 before there were health warnings on cigarette packets.

He was already addicted and smoking 60 a day when the warnings were introduced in 1971.

He was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 1992 and died the following year aged 48.

The case took 10 years to reach Lord Nimmo Smith at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in October 2003.

Imperial Tobacco denied liability, insisting Mr McTear was aware of the health risks associated with smoking.

source: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3 ... 83,00.html

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:06 am

Good. Glad to see someone NOT screwing "big tobacco" for a change.

-Azathoth- · Post by **-Azathoth-** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:14 pm

As much as I dislike smoking, no one forces people to do it.

Skater_dusto · Post by **Skater_dusto** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:20 pm

As much as I'm also against ciggarettes, anyone should see that 60+ ciggarettes a day is bad. That ratio of any foreign substance (And even familiar substances like water) can be potentially hazardous.

Stupid bitc...

P.S. Azathoth, your avatar is killing my god damn eyes. Please change it. My eyes couldn't stear away from it.

FETUS · Post by **FETUS** » Tue May 31, 2005 7:22 pm

I adblocked his av a long time ago

Post by **melancholy** » Tue May 31, 2005 8:25 pm

Yeah, I've been pretty much ignoring Az's posts ever since he got that avatar. It's just too much work to read it while that thing's flashing.

ghostparty · Post by **ghostparty** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:41 pm

OMFG!
How was I supposed to know that this drug that made me cough and weeze a lot was bad for my health!!?!

ian · Post by **ian** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:57 pm

i too would like to say sucked in

damn bastards blame tobacco companys for every thing

p.s: i love you british american tobacco

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:28 pm

Big tabacco held a gun to my head and made me start to chew until I was addicted!!