"The doctors couldn't get her to stop. Her husband couldn't get her to stop. - She wasn't going to take orders from anybody."
-- DONALD COHN, ATTORNEY FOR THE LIGGETT GROUP
"Rose Cipollone had the upper lobe of her lung cut out. She still continued to smoke. Doesn't that suggest some kind of a dependence?"
-- MARC EDELL, ATTORNEY FOR THE CIPOLLONES
Rose Cipollone was intensely stubborn, especially about her cigarette habit. The New Jersey housewife often ordered groceries she did not need just to get a fresh pack of smokes delivered. She ignored her husband and children when they started...