Miami - The $350 million settlement of a landmark flight attendants' lawsuit over "second-hand smoke" shows the tobacco industry wants to settle out of court rather than risk facing juries, industry analysts said yesterday.
"It's the third major case that they've settled in four months," said Mr Richard Daynard, who heads the Tobacco Products Liability Project at Northeastern University, which advocates litigation against cigarette firms. "You're talking about an industry that's on the run. They're obviously dead scared of ever letting a jury consider the evidence against them. They'll do anything to stop them."