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I lost the first lawsuit in a 50 billion won lawsuit against domestic and foreign tobacco companies, which, according to the National Health Insurance Corporation, compensated for the loss caused by smoking. The court ruled that smoking is a matter of choice based on free will and that there is insufficient evidence of a causal relationship to related diseases. Reporter Park Seo-kyung’s report. In 2014, Health Insurance Corporation filed a lawsuit against a tobacco company for damages of KRW 53 billion for the first time as a national agency. The goal is to pay the premium paid by the Corporation for 3,400 patients who smoked a pack a day for more than 20 years and smoked for more than 30 years. After fifteen defense cases over six years, the Seoul Central District Court handed over to the tobacco companies in the first trial. First, the court found it difficult for the Health Insurance Corporation to admit that it was at a disadvantage due to a tobacco company, saying that it was simply meeting its obligations under the law to pay insurance benefits. Furthermore, not only the industrial complex, but also the smokers who received insurance premiums did not have the right to claim damages from the tobacco companies. The judge says tobacco companies have posted warnings on cigarette packages saying that smoking is harmful to health or that it prohibits the sale of young people under the law. He stressed that starting and continuing to smoke is a matter of free will. In addition, it was determined that lung cancer could be caused by factors other than smoking, such as personal lifestyle habits. He explained that for a causal relationship to be recognized, it must be shown that it is difficult to assume that there are other risk factors, but it was not. Health Insurance Corporation said it was shocking and unfortunate, and said it will continue to make efforts to legally recognize the harms caused by cigarettes. The Korean Council to Stop Smoking also criticized the Korean judiciary for issuing an anachronistic ruling, although some cases have been won overseas. Previously, the Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiff, saying that in the 2014 damages claim filed by individual smokers against the tobacco companies, the causal relationship between lung cancer and smoking must be examined according to individual circumstances. . The Health Insurance Corporation has filed a large-scale lawsuit for 6 years, presenting 15,000 pages of evidence, but as in the past, it has not exceeded the court’s ruling that it cannot prove a causal link between smoking and lung cancer. . This is YTN Park Seo-kyung. ※ ‘Your report becomes news’ YTN is waiting for your valuable report.
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