The New York Times, January 30, 2011 by Barry Meier
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/31tobacco.html
Stephen D. Sugarman … said he did not expect the St. Louis suit to be any more successful than those that had preceded it. He said that the difficulty for third-party claimants like hospitals was that they were trying to stand in the shoes of the smokers themselves.