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• Norwegian Smoker Loses Case 

The Orkdal District Court said the smoker, Robert Lund, continued to smoke even after the dangers of smoking "became broadly known and accepted" and said tobacco's addictiveness did not free him from responsibility for continuing to smoke. . .

Lund was terminally ill when he sued Norway's largest tobacco company, Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrikk AS, for compensation. He had smoked Tiedemanns products before he was diagnosed with cancer and blamed them for his ill health. He said the company should have warned him of the dangers. . .

"The impact of the acquittal is that the individual smoker and not the manufacturer carries the responsibility of any smoking related diseases," parent company Skandinavisk Tobakkskompagni AS said in a statement.

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The impact of the acquittal is that the individual smoker and not the manufacturer carries the responsibility of any smoking related diseases.
Skandinavisk Tobakkskompagni AS, parent company of Norway's largest tobacco company, Tiedemanns Tobaksfabrikk AS, in a statement on the Lund verdict. Mellgren, D., <I>Norwegian Smoker Loses Case</I>