Tobacco Companies Say Claims Of Smoker With Lung Cancer Properly Dismissed

(April 19, 2024, 12:37 PM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two tobacco companies in an April 18 appellee brief in the First District Florida Court of Appeal argue for affirmance of a trial court’s dismissal with prejudice of a second amended complaint filed by a smoker with lung cancer, writing that the smoker failed to allege a product defect or that more health warnings before 1969 would have prevented her from beginning to smoke....