tobacco lawsuits
Smoking industry cases
Tobacco lawsuits are legal actions against cigarette manufacturers, typically seeking damages for health consequences of smoking.
The term usually refers to the wave of litigation in the 1990s that resulted in massive settlements requiring tobacco companies to pay billions to states for healthcare costs: The tobacco lawsuits changed how the industry could advertise.
- litigationLegal dispute process
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- cancerUncontrolled cell proliferation disease
- plaintiffsThose initiating lawsuits
- damagesCompensation for injury
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