Jeffrey Harris
M.D., Ph.D.
Plaintiffs’ expert, Jeffrey Harris, M.D., PhD., is a full time practicing physician and full time tenured Economics Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has provided invited testimony before many federal legislative bodies on economic issues related to smoking, tobacco companies and other health related smoking issues.
Dr. Harris offered testimony establishing that Marlboro Lights had higher levels of almost all of the constituent toxic substances measured in the Massachusetts Benchmark Study compared to Marlboro Reds. Dr. Harris testified that these constituent toxicity levels increased harm.
Dr. Harris also provided the economic damages model and calculated damages in this case. Dr. Harris measured the difference between the price paid by Class Members for the fraudulent Lights cigarettes and the value to these consumers of the misrepresented Lights. Dr. Harris calculated compensatory damages in this case at $7.1005 Billion.