products liability

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Cipollone v. Liggett Group

suing tobacco companies
2001
Provides background information on the tobacco industry and the history of health warnings about smoking; describes the legal case "Cipollone v. Liggett Group," in which the family of a woman who died of lung cancer sued a cigarette company and made it all the way to the Supreme Court; and urges readers to decide for themselves who was at fault in the case.
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