Paugh v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• dismissing claims of plaintiff who smoked from 1940-1990 because “[t]he dangers posed by tobacco smoking have long been within the ordinary knowledge common to the community”
• “[T]he risks of smoking are an inherent characteristic of cigarettes, and ... knowledge of these risks has been common to the community since well before 1966.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).