2990 REVIEW GRANTED An amendment to the Civil Code eliminating the products liability of tobacco companies applies to actions that accrued after it went into effect, even though based on conduct that occurred before it went into effect.CitationSOUDERS v PHILIP MORRIS (Retroactive Tobacco) 87 CA4 756 [See: CivC 1714.45; Naegele v RJ Reynolds (RevGrtd) 81 CA4 503, T/AT 7/00; American Tobacco v Superior Court 208 CA3 480; Spear v CA State Auto 2 C4 1035; Neel v Magana 6 C3 176; Buttram v Owens-Corning 16 C4 520, T/AT 9/97; Western Security v Superior Court 15 C4 232; Evangelatos v Superior Court 44 C3 1188]
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