A California jury ordered two major tobacco companies to pay $20 million to a dying woman who began smoking after heath warnings first appeared on cigarette packets. According to a San Francisco Court jury, the nation’s top two tobacco companies were each partly to blame for the terminal lung cancer suffered by Leslie Whiteley, a forty year-old from Ojai, California who smoked for 25 years. As much as I would love to see the tobacco companies stung financially, I feel it is a Health Outrage for someone to knowingly commit suicide only to be rewarded.
