Smoker Bought Into “Filter Fraud,” Says Attorney In Tobacco Trial

Scott Schlesinger tells jurors that Glodine McCoy bought filtered cigarettes when they were released to the market because she believed tobacco industry marketing claims that they were safer. Schlesinger represents McCoy’s husband, John McCoy, who claims tobacco makers R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris concealed smoking’s health hazards, which caused Glodine McCoy’s nicotine addiction, lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases.