Smoker's Lottery: After 146,000 Marlboros, Will Philip Morris Pay for Your Chest Scan?
- `Dangerous' doesn't mean `defective,' company lawyer argues
- Boston lawsuit's outcome might affect more than 36,000 people
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Philip Morris USA should pay for annual chest scans for thousands of longtime Marlboro smokers in Massachusetts because the company sold a defective and unreasonably dangerous product, a lawyer for the smokers told jurors at the close of a trial.
“You’re about to deliberate about the most dangerous consumer product ever invented,” attorney Kevin T. Peters told the panel Tuesday in federal court in Boston. “It’s a product intended to addict its users and intended to addict children.”