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• Montpellier District Court rejects applications filed by Arenas family against Seita 

Jump to full article: Altadis, 2003-09-02

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Altadis welcomes the fact that its arguments were accepted by the Montpellier District Court, which rejected the applications filed by the family of Emmanuel Arenas, rightly ruling that Seita cannot be held liable today for the lack of information cited by the plaintiffs.

The Court has emphasized the fact that at the time Seita was not legally entitled to take such a decision as placing health warnings on cigarettes packs. Therefore, SEITA could not be reproached for having failed in some obligation to inform that did not come within the scope of its competence.

Emmanuel Arenas died in 1999 from lung cancer which his family attributed to his consumption of tobacco.

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