These are reasonable claims.  They will involve a lot of work, and there may be some initial skepticism from some judges and jurors. But that's just the kind of skepticism you saw initially with tobacco. As [the cities] work on it, I think they'll find paydirt.

Richard Daynard
Tobacco litigation expert
Referring to Boston's lawsuit against gun manufactures.
From Join Together Online 11/25/1998
He now heads a project to determine whether insights learned in tobacco litigation can be applied to the obesity epidemic.