Not to worry. We lost this one, but we've got 3,100 addi tional shots at getting just one jury dopey enough to come down on our side, even though all we've got is junk science on second-hand smoke. All we need is one, and we'll line our pockets like nobody's business.
Flight attendants are the tip of the iceberg.
Office workers, wait ers and everyone else with a job where someone is smok ing will line up to sue, even if all they've got is a sinus at tack. With 31 million cases going, we're bound to win some. There's no end in sight. Lawyers dominate government from town hall to Congress. Sooner or later, some jury will come up with the kind of millions in damages that deep-pocket airline companies will be expected to pay, based on nothing more than a jury's emotional reaction to a suffering plaintiff.