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Jump to full article: Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr), 2005-05-31
Author: the time such warnings appeared in 1971, he was already
Intro: The widow of a British lung cancer victim failed in a legal bid to hold Imperial Tobacco responsible for his 1993 death in a landmark case that, by chance, was decided on World No Tobacco Day.
Margaret McTear, 60, had been hoping to win 500,000 pounds (734,000 euros, 909,000 dollars) from the global tobacco giant at a Scottish court.
But judge Lord William Nimmo Smith rejected McTear's claim that Imperial Tobacco failed to do enough to warn of the dangers of smoking.
Her husband, Alfred McTear, a former telephone installer, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 1992 after smoking up to 60 John Player king-size cigarettes a day at the height of his habit.
He initiated legal action against Imperial Tobacco in January 1993. Three months later, he died at the age of 48, leaving his wife to continue the court battle.
The family's lawyers, led by Colin McEachran, argued that when the father-of-three started smoking in 1964, aged 19, there were no warnings on cigarette packets.
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