RSS
Home
Smokers need to take responsibility for their own habitat
Print
Email
RSS
Subscribe
.jpg)
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.
Related Articles:
Comments
.jpeG)
