Top court rules B.C. can sue tobacco companies

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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050929/bc_tobacco_lawsuits_050929/20050929?hub=TopStories

In a decision that could lead to cigarette-makers coughing up billions of dollars to pay for sick smokers' health care, the country's top court has ruled that British Columbia can sue the industry.

"They upheld the constitutionality of the British Columbia legislation," CTV Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife reported from the Supreme Court.

"This is a landmark ruling that could serve as a prototype for other provinces to sue the big tobacco companies."

The unanimous 9-0 judgment -- delayed, at the request of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, until after the stock markets closed -- gives the go-ahead for B.C. to seek damages for smoking-related health-care costs dating back 50 years.

more at link...

Any day we stick it to big tobacco is a good day in my books :)

Sid

[tuvor]

1. A legacy Glen Clark can actually be proud of! n/t

[Systematic Chaos]

2. As an aside...

those Canadian cigarettes smell 50 times more fucking horrid than most of the American ones, except maybe the super-generic $12 a carton pieces of shit that the poorest among us usually buy. :puke: