[' ', ' ', '06/23/00', '16:13', 'FAX', 'ose', '*reprisal(s)', 'occurred”', 'and', '“damages', 'juries', 'were', 'then', 'asked', 'to', 'deterinine', 'what', 'award', 'to', 'make', 'for', 'particular', 'injuries', 'to', 'particular', 'plaintiffs', 'without', 'a', 'clue', 'as', 'to', 'whether', 'those', 'injuries', 'were', 'caused', 'by', 'the', 'acts', 'that', 'the', 'liability', 'jury', 'deemed', 'to', 'be', 'the', '‘reprisals""),', 'To', 'taake', 'the', 'findings', 'useful', 'to', 'the', '120', 'individual', 'Plaintiffs', 'who', 'began', 'smoking', 'in', 'different', 'years,', 'berween', '1930', 'and', '1977,', 'some', 'of', 'whom', 'stopped', 'smoking', 'as', 'early', 'as', '1960,', 'but', 'some', 'of', 'whom', 'continie', 'to', 'smoke', 'today,', 'smoked', '44', 'brands', 'of', 'cigarettes', 'and', 'used', '24', 'other', 'tobacco', 'products,', 'manufactured', 'by', 'different', 'Petitioners', 'over', 'a', 'period', 'of', 'seven', 'decades,', 'the', 'findings', 'would', 'have', 'to', 'be', 'so', 'detailed', 'that', 'the', 'jury', 'instruction', 'alone', 'would', 'stretch', 'Phase', 'I', 'into', 'a', 'years-Iong', 'process.', 'Dd.', 'The', 'Trial', 'Plan', 'Order', 'Takes', 'Manageable', 'Casts', 'and', 'Creates', 'an', 'Unwieldy', 'Situati', ' ', 'In', 'MacQueen,', 'this', 'Court', 'declined', 'to', 'issue', 'a', 'writ', 'to', 'prevent', 'the', 'implementation', 'of', 'a', 'similar', 'trial', 'plan', 'in', 'the', 'asbestos', 'context.', 'That', 'decision,', 'however,', 'does', 'not', 'support', 'the', 'circuit', 'court’s', 'Trial', 'Plan', 'Order', 'of', 'partial', 'consolidation', 'and', 'bifurcation', 'in', 'these', 'lawsuits.', 'Unlike', 'asbestos,', 'the', 'tobacco', 'cases', 'do', 'not', 'involve', 'identical', 'or', 'even', 'similar', 'factual', 'bases.', 'For', 'example,', 'the', 'Plaintiffs', 'claim', 'a', 'wide', 'variety', 'of', 'injuries', '--', 'none', 'found', 'solely', 'among', 'smokers', '-', 'from', 'a', 'wide', 'variety', 'of', 'consumer', 'products', '(¢.g.,', 'filtered', 'and', 'unfiltered', 'cigarettes', 'of', 'diffsring', 'brands,', 'manufactured', 'by', 'different', 'Petitioners', 'cigars,', 'smokeless', 'tobacco,', 'loose', 'leaf', 'tobaces', 'and', 'pipe', 'tobacco).', 'Plaintiffs', 'began', 'using', 'these', 'products', 'at', 'different', 'times,', 'from', '1930', 'to', '1996,', 'Moreover,', 'unlike', 'asbestos', '—', 'where', 'the', 'majority', 'of', 'cases', 'involved', 'unknowing', 'and', 'involuntary', 'exposure', '~-', 'these', 'cases', 'involve', 'Plaintiffs', 'who', 'repeatedly', 'chose', 'to', 'buy', 'and', 'use', 'cigarettes', 'or', 'other', 'tobacco', 'products.', 'The', 'Petitioners', 'were', 'not', 'the', 'sole', 'source', 'of', 'information', 'about', '40', '29462296']