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Jump to full article: Toronto (Ont) Star (ca), 2000-11-21
Author: Peter Small - STAFF REPORTER
Intro: Joseph Battaglia says he was fooled for years by the packaging on his Matinee Extra Milds into believing he was smoking a safer cigarette that might help him quit, a court has been told.
Now the 59-year-old Toronto man is suing Imperial Tobacco Ltd. for $6,000 in general damages in small claims court, saying he developed coronary heart disease as a result of smoking the cigarettes.
`It's about a consumer that didn't get what he thought he was getting'
``It's about a consumer that didn't get what he thought he was getting and it's about a manufacturer who denies any liability for what appears on its package,'' Doug Lennox, Battaglia's lawyer, said in his opening statement yesterday.
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