That's the key to future victories over the once-invulnerable cigarette manufacturers, contends Winchester attorney William A. Dykeman, who represents Barnes in his lawsuit against Philip Morris. As Big Tobacco fights in court with state governments, which have sued to recoup the medical costs of caring for sick smokers, reams of internal memos and secret research reports are pouring out of the cigarette companies' archives during the discovery process. Just in the past year, records made public showed that tobacco companies aimed their products at children and experimented with nicotine levels to make cigarettes as addictive as possible. People say there's this matter of choice. But addiction affects different people in different ways.
Some heroin addicts kick the habit right away, while others die with a needle in their arms.
He's still smoking after most of his fingers have been amputated. He's holding a cigarette with stubs. Not everyone's sympathetic Not everyone is so sympathetic. In Kentucky's tobacco counties, there are people who pride themselves on pluck and common sense. I have two uncles who passed away from lung cancer because they smoked.