Updated 2015-06-02 06:52. Published 2015-06-02 06:51
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A Canadian court judge three tobacco companies to pay a total of SEK 106.5 billion for smokers and former smokers who claimed that they were never warned about the health risks of smoking, reports the Canadian media.
“By choice to does not inform the health authorities or the public about what they knew so chose the companies profits over their customers’ health,” writes Judge Brian Riordan judgment, reports The Toronto Star.
The judgment is the outcome of the two lawsuits filed in 1998 on a total of one million smokers behalf of the province of Quebec for a period that extends almost 50 years back in time: 918,000 people who have been unable to stop and the 100,000 who have become ill from their smoking.
The three companies – Imperial Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & amp; Hedges, and JTI-MacDonald – have announced that they intend to appeal the verdict.
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