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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] [QUOTE]This is off topic now but those cases against the tobacco companies are nonsense too. "I was smoking 60 cigarettes a day for 50 years of my life and it gave me cancer. I blame the manufacturers for giving me cancer". For fucks sake, IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE FOR HUMANS TO BE THIS STUPID! [/QUOTE] Um, would I be stupid if I said I agreed with anti-tobacco litigation? The companies knew the link to cancer, got together and signed a pact to stand united and try and fight off the critics. They agreed not to try to lower tar levels to undercut one another. With full knowledge of this and the fact that their market would die off quicker, they agreed together to market their product to children. This isn't lawyerish speculation, this is real documents, slowly being extracted tooth and nail from the tobacco companies. How is what the tobacco companies are doing any worse than a car company knowing a car will blow up but not recalling it? It's far, far worse, IMHO, given the death toll tobacco has exacted since ignorance on the part of the tobacco companies no longer was an excuse. The only numbers that come to mind are Canadian ones, but I'll have you know that Tobacco-related disease cost the Canadian health budget three to four times of what's recouped by cigarette taxes. (And our cigarette taxes are [i]high[/i].) That's before we take into account the ill effects smoking has on society outside hospitals: reduced productivity in the workplace, poor levels of general fitness, a mass consumption of the disposable income of addicts that could go into the economy somewhere other than big tobacco. Frivolous litigation is everywhere, yes, but this isn't an example of it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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