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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Judge awards $15-billion to Quebec smokers in landmark case against tobacco giants 🌿Judge awards $15-billion to Quebec smokers in landmark case against tobacco giants
In a ruling described as “historic” by one lawyer, a Quebec judge has ordered three major cigarette companies to pay $15 billion to smokers in what is believed to be the biggest class-action lawsuit ever seen in Canada.
“These three companies lied to their customers for 50 years and hurt their right to life,” Andre Lesperance, one of the lawyers involved in the case, said Monday.
“It’s a great victory for victims as well as for society in general.”
For Lise Blais, the judgment was bittersweet.
One of the two lawsuits that eventually merged into one was filed by her husband, Jean-Yves Blais, shortly before he died of lung cancer in September 2012 at the age of 68.
The widow attended a news conference in Montreal after the ruling was handed down and she urged people to quit smoking.
“Your health is completely lost,” she said as she clutched photos...
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