Legal Opinion
Myers v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
California Supreme Court
Decided August 5, 2002No. S095213PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KENNARD, J.
In 1995, the California Legislature found that “[tjobaccorelated disease places a tremendous financial burden upon the persons with the disease, their families, the health care delivery system, and society as a whole,” and that “California spends five billion six hundred million dollars ($5,600,000,000) a year in direct and indirect costs on smoking-related illnesses.” (Health & Saf. Code, § 104350, subd. (a)(7).) To obtain compensation for the physical and mental suffering and staggering expenses inflicted by tobacco-related illness, users of tobacco products and their…
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