Imperial Tobacco

The Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health said on Monday, March 11, 2019, that smokers who won a recent court victory are being denied justice after an Ontario judge granted cigarette maker JTI-Macdonald Corp. protection from its creditors last week.

JTI-Macdonald Corp. says it's been granted creditor protection following a Quebec Court of Appeal decision upholding a landmark judgment ordering it and two other companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers.

In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday, March 1, 2019, upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers.