Sunday, August 2, 2009

Lonely tobacco lawsuit bucks Big Tobacco in smoker-friendly Japan (Baltimore Sun)

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) â€" One plaintiff is a cancer patient. Another is represented by his widow. The third, has emphysema and rolls into the courtroom on a wheelchair with tubes trailing out of his nose. The three Japanese are waging a minnow-vs.-whale battle against Big Tobacco in one of the world's most smoker-friendly countries. But precedent suggests they're likely to lose, and they hope their ...

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