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A Quebec court ordered three tobacco companies pay US $ 12,000 million in damages in what is considered the largest in the history of this fine American country.
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A court in Canada ordered three tobacco companies pay compensation amounting to almost $ 12,000 million in what is considered the largest in the history of American country demands that amount.
The lawsuit filed by smokers in the province of Quebec established that tobacco not properly warned about the risks to health associated with smoking.
Imperial Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & amp; Hedges and JTI-Macdonald said they will appeal the decision.
The class action lawsuit was filed in 1998 but only recently went to trial.
Companies defendants argue that Canadians have had a “higher consciousness” on the risks of smoking to health since the 1950s.
“That awareness has been reinforced by warnings on each legal cigarette package for over 40 years, “he said in a statement JTI-Macdonald.
Imperial Tobacco said industry should not be held responsible for the choices they made consumers.
However, the lawsuit claims the companies failed to properly warned their clients in cases of cigarettes and failed in their task of “do no harm to another person,” according to the decision the Superior Court of Quebec.
The demand represents nearly one million smoking who could not give up smoking or suffered from throat or lung cancer to emphysema.
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