Myers v. Philip Morris Companies, Inc.

Supreme Court of California · Decided 2002-08-05

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Opinion KENNARD, J. In 1995, the California Legislature found that “[tjobaccorelated disease places a tremendous financial burden upon the persons with the disease, their families, the health care delivery system, and society as a whole,” and that “California spends five billion six hundred million dollars ($5,600,000,000) a year in direct and indirect costs on s…

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