It was the first such action to go before a jury in fifteen years, but Belli lost, holding that neither causation nor addiction had been proven. His attorney, Don Barrett, brings the suit before a jury in January 1988, but the judge declares a mistrial because of a hung jury. Michael Moore is elected Attorney General of Mississippi. 1988 Jackie Thompson first gets sick from tobacco related illness. Miss. His client is awarded no damages in the case.
Smoking is banned on U.S. passenger flights of less than six hours' duration.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the 1965 warning labels on cigarette packs does not shield companies from lawsuits. Matthew Fishbein and other US Attorneys from the Eastern District of New York open a federal probe into criminal wrongdoing by the tobacco industry, focusing on Judge Sarokin's opinion in the Haines case . In the elevator after the visit, Mike Lewis comes up with the idea of suing the tobacco industry on behalf of the state to recover costs from treating smokers. Feb 1994 FDA Commissioner David Kessler announces plans to consider regulation of tobacco as a drug, stating that tobacco manufacturers use nicotine to satisfy addiction. A national class action suit is filed on behalf of smokers, known as the Castano suit, after Peter Castano, a former Louisiana attorney who died of lung cancer.