ALLEGATION OF CANCER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30278, 2 November 1963, Page 11

ALLEGATION OF CANCER

Man Sues For 2.5 m Dollars (N.Z. Preu Aun—Copyright) MIAMI, November 1. A man who smoked cigarettes for 30 years has sued a tobacco company for 2,536,000 dollars. He alleges the company's products gave him lung cancer. Leo McGraw is charging the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company with placing a dangerous article, unfit for human consumption, on the market.

He smoked Camel. Winston. or Salem cigarettes consistently for 30 years, at the rate ot three packets a day. The cigarettes allegedly gave him lung cancer in October, 1962, and part of a lung was removed. The suit asks for a jury trial. It claims he relied on advertisements, which, he said, indicated the cigarettes were free from detrimental effects. McGraw called the advertisements false, and blamed the Reynolds company for not “informing the public of the cigarettes’ harmful effects.”

Ln a previous case before the Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans, the Florida Supreme Court said in an advisory opinion that under implied warranty, cigarette manufacturers were responsible for the harmful effects of their products, whether these effects could be foreseen or not.

The opinion did not say that cigarettes were the cause of any ailment.

Memorial Avenue.—New Zealand trees will be included in the landscaping of a ceremonial driveway to be built in Canberra to mark the jubilee of Anzac in IMS. —Canberra, November L