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Business as usual is not acceptable
Author(s) -
Cummings K. Michael,
Gustafson James W.,
Sales David J.,
Khuri Fadlo R.,
Warren Graham W.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.29442
Subject(s) - punitive damages , medicine , product (mathematics) , tobacco industry , law , pathology , geometry , mathematics , political science
It is time for the cigarette industry to be held accountable for the consequences of manufacturing and promoting a product that causes so much disease and death. Punitive damage awards in tobacco litigation are an important way to make the cigarette companies recognize that Business as usual is not acceptable.