Children to continue smoking law suit

The children of an Invercargill woman who died of lung cancer will begin their legal bid for financial compensation against a tobacco company in the High Court at Auckland today.

Last year Brandon and Kasey Pou won the right to seek damages from British American Tobacco (New Zealand) and W.D. & H.O. Wills under the Deaths by Accidents Compensation Act 1952.

Their mother Janice Pou, who smoked 30 cigarettes a day from the age of 17, died in September 2002 at 51. She had sued the tobacco company for $310,000 three months before she died.