Comments on: Defining Words http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/22/defining-words/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Thu, 24 May 2012 02:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bob http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/22/defining-words/#comment-5901 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:10:10 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/22/defining-words/#comment-5901 “I wonder if he would have been astute enough to define ‘zephyr’ the same way the tobacco companies did, had he been lucky enough to see the internal memos before he took up his deadly habit.”

Given that evidence of the link between cancer and smoking was discovered by independent researchers first this ‘zephyr’ is a red herring.

See, e.g., http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld1.html

]]> By: TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Philip Morris v. Williams http://truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/22/defining-words/#comment-5900 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:13:05 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/05/22/defining-words/#comment-5900 [...] This case was brought against Philip Morris by the widow of a smoker, who maintained that Philip Morris’s fraudulent and negligent conduct regarding disclosure about cigarettes, lung cancer, safety risks, and related issues led to her husband’s painful, untimely death due to zephyr lung cancer.  The jury found Philip Morris liable for fraud, and the jury awarded $79.5 million in punitive damages (in addition to $800,000-ish in compensatory damages).  [...]

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