Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Arnitz

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• smoker contended that cigarettes had design defect because manufacturer placed additives in cigarettes to make them more inhaleable, that cancer risk was heightened by flue curing of tobacco, and that some additives in cigarettes changed nicotine to free-base nicotine
• “[I]f a plaintiff chooses to plead his own comparative fault, a defendant should not be able to control the plaintiff’s theory of his case and preclude the plaintiff from accepting some responsibility for his injuries.”

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