Sunday, May 21, 2006
The Smoking Gun.
By eliminating class-action status for Floridians who claimed years of smoking made them ill (you think?), the court discarded the award issued in 2000 after a two-year trial.
The jury decided that cigarettes are deadly, addictive and defective because they make people sick when used as directed (thank god for the jury, I mean who would have ever thought?). It set punitive damages for an estimated 300,000 to 700,000 smokers after deciding compensatory damages for three people with cancer serving as representatives of the group-Yahoo
While I think the tobacco companies are moral- less scumbags making bank on other peoples addictions (i.e. me), enough with the lawsuits already. Doesn't anyone take responsibility for their actions anymore? Here's a hint: READ THE DAMN LABEL. For years people have been warning us about the dangers of smoking, if the risk is too much for you to deal with don't smoke, but don't pretend to place blame on anyone but yourself. I've been trying to quit smoking for years, who's fault is that? Mine. If I get lung cancer tomorrow I'm not calling my lawyer, I'm calling a doctor. It would be my own fault for not quitting sooner, in fact for starting at all. But I accept that risk willingly each time I light up. It's called personal responsibility, and it's a sad thing so few people understand that these days. It's not McDonald's fault you put a two zillion degree cup of coffee between your legs and fried your naughty parts. It's not the casino's fault you don't understand the odds and spent little Johnny's college fund on the slots. We seem all too eager to place the blame on anyone and anything but where it belongs, ourselves. I don't get it.
Why is it so hard to admit we screwed up?
Besides everyone knows smoking is all Nicole Kidman's fault.
Anti-smoking groups today said the image of Kidman smoking was a free advertisement for the tobacco industry and glamorised the habit.-SMH.com.au
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