Philip Morris is in the past because of fraud in marketing

An Illinois Circuit Court Judge Philip Morris USA found responsible for a class action by consumers and there are ways of fraud, the company ordered to pay $ 10.1 billion, due to a lack of consumer information, ihre”Licht”Zigaretten no less harmful than Full - tar cigarettes.In one striking elements of the judgement, Judge Nicholas Byron, wrote that Philip Morris, a unit of Altria, knew that light and low tar cigarettes has actually been more harmful than their colleagues Given the steady improvement in the ventilation rate products tar, Who allows more toxic smoke into the lungs by consumers.

Judge Byron, the Third Circuit, which is in Madison County, decided that companies must pay $ 3 billion in punitive damages to the State of Illinois and $ 7.1 billion to compensate for damage caused to smokers light cigarettes. Philip Morris was also for the payment of $ 1.78 billion in legal fees.

Philip Morris said it would appeal the judgement. It would establish a loan of $ 12 billion to be done.

I am delighted that this message will go, and I am delighted that this judgement is Philip Morris to every courtroom in the USA, Stephen Tillery,’’said the lawyer for the claimants. ”And I am delighted that whenever a Light-smoking cigarettes is sick, they can at this decision and that its responsibility is established for them.”

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