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Tobacco firm knew danger, court told 

Imperial Tobacco Canada is trying to shift the blame to the federal government and smokers for its failure to warn them that mild cigarettes aren't necessarily safer, a court was told.

``If you are going to sell a product that causes disease . . . before someone lies in a hospital bed, sick, you have got to give them all the information,'' Doug Lennox, lawyer for Joseph Battaglia, said in closing statements. . .

Lennox said Imperial Tobacco executives have testified that in the 1980s, they had a ``private epiphany'' that cigarette smoking could be harmful, but they did not share that revelation with consumers.

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