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A Lucky Strike ad from the 1960's
The daughter of a deceased smoker just earned some easy money after a jury in Los Angeles decided that Philip Morris owes her $13.8 million in punitive damages.
Yet such get rich quick schemes are not new, not too long ago Philip Morris had to pay $80 million to another individual in Oregon.
Another has been brought up in Japan by three individuals who claim that "they were unaware of the harmful effects".
These cases would have made sense had this been the 70's but in the late 2000 a person should be aware of the dangers of smoking.
Also such cases have at times not been made by the smoker but a freeloading child who is trying to earn some quick cash (probably to pay for their own heroin).
These frivolous cases has at times allowed one freeloader to mooch off a major industry and a dying relative. In this age every one is aware of the harmful effects of smoking. The only excuse one person could have is their inability to read the warning, hence they should be ashamed of themselves.
Half these moronic claims state that it was the tobacco industries fault for having them smoke in the first place. One problem in the anti-smoking debate is their is no personal responsibility, its always scapegoating the industry.
I'm a smoker (Lucky Strike), I have smoked one pack a week since I was 17, I'm aware of the effects it has on my health, I avoid smoking in areas were children are present, and I could read the label that says "Surgeon General Warning: smoking will give you cancer and it will kill you".
If I die it would be my fault for smoking not the tobacco company.
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Poor deluded Rezaee blitheringly regurgitates tobacco industry PR without knowing a single thing about these cases except what the industry itself has argued, both in court and in the press (to fertilize the ground so that the public--especially jurors--would have an initial mindset like Rezaee's).
Duh. Try actually reading the cases, readily available online. Actually see why so many jurors and judges have come to these verdicts.
The tobacco industry studied and knew _exactly_ how smokers would react to its attempts to maintain its sales in the face of scientific findings. They knew that their resellers were selling an addictive, deadly product to kids. Their behavior--knowingly increasing death rates for profit--was cynical, despicable, and not something we would want _any_ corporate entity to undertake. $13.8 M is a slap on the wrist.
We see part of its game-plan right here--pump out enough PR for "moronic," uninformed smokers like Rezaee to regurgitate on the internet
Wow. Your ignorance is staggering. You know nothing about the case. You know nothing about the plaintiff. You know nothing about the suffering the original plaintiff (now deceased) went through or the courage of her family to see it through. You know nothing at all. Except that you are right. It must be nice to go through life that way. But that does not make your opinion worth reading.
we'll end up numb from playing video games
and we'll get sick of having sex
and we'll get fat from eating candy
as we drink ourselves to death
we'll stay up late making mixtapes
photoshopping pictures of ourselves
while we masturbate to pixelated images
of strangers f@cking themselves
we aaaaare very busy people!
How could you have possibly started smoking when you were 17? You can't be a day over 10.
Wow
I thought the writer was immature but the responders are more childish. Can't you people make a respond that doesn't involve personal attacks or name calling.
Here is a thought, If you can work a computer then your grown up. So start acting like an adult.
Person wrote,"Here is a thought, If you can work a computer then your grown up."
Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful? The author makes irresponsible, and quite possibly slanderous, claims about people he does not know. I challenge the writer to rewrite his article after one attempt to quit smoking. Until then, he may want to consider throwing his computer out the window of his smoking h-a-b-i-t-a-t.
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