{"id":1175,"date":"2015-06-02T05:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2015-06-02T05:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:13:13","slug":"canada-smokers-awarded-15-billion-in-damages-as-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/06\/02\/canada-smokers-awarded-15-billion-in-damages-as-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Smokers awarded $15 billion in damages as tobacco companies ordered to pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec, Canada. Three tobacco companies have been ordered to pay $15 billion in\u00a0damages after losing a historic court case.<\/p>\n<p>In making his judgement, THE HONORABLE BRIAN RIORDAN, J.S.C, wrote:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;these companies <span class=\"highlight selected\">collud<\/span>ed among themselves in order to impede the public from learning of health related information about smoking, a collusion that continued for many decades thereafter.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The judgement, made 27 May, 2015 can be read in full <a href=\"http:\/\/tjl.quebec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-05-27-AA-Jmt.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec, Canada. Three tobacco companies have been ordered to pay $15 billion in\u00a0damages after losing a historic court case. In making his judgement, THE HONORABLE BRIAN RIORDAN, J.S.C, wrote: &#8220;these companies colluded among themselves in order to impede the public from learning of health related information about smoking, a collusion that continued for many decades [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/06\/02\/canada-smokers-awarded-15-billion-in-damages-as-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tobacco-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}