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Tob Control 2002;11:171-172 doi:10.1136/tc.11.3.171-a
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Italy: court's expert panel condemns tobacco

  1. Marcello Stalteri1,
  2. Carlo La Vecchia2,
  3. Silvio Garattini3
  1. 1Università di Firenze, 50100 Firenze, Italy
  2. 2Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
  3. 3Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, 20157 Milano, Italy

      Stalteri vs. Monopoli di Stato is the first tobacco product liability case filed in Italy (in 1994) and the second one in Europe. On 13 March 2002 a panel ad hoc appointed by the Civil Court of Appeal in Rome released its expert witness opinion on specific causation, concerning the case of the late Mario Stalteri, a pack-a-day smoker …

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