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Product Liability

Jan. 30, 2003

Cancer Risk?

Forum Column - By Norman E. Kjono - Does the principle of liability for promotion of products with potentially dangerous properties apply to pharmaceutical nicotine products used for smoking cessation or substitution purposes? Millions of consumers use pharmaceutical nicotine products to avoid cancer from tobacco use without knowing that those very products may themselves cause cancer. Recent research by the National Cancer Institute and the Stanford University School of Medicine raises serious

        Forum Column
        
        By Norman E. Kjono
        
        Does the principle of liability for promotion of products with potentially dangerous properties apply to pharmaceutical nicotine products used for smoking cessation...

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