Smoking: Court Tosses $80M Award [Archive]

sandy

02-20-2007, 09:55 AM

Finally. Some sense. People who choose to smoke should NOT sue tobacco companies or win monetary awards. Personal responsibility and choice...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_bi_ge/scotus_philip_morris

Kat4Ever

02-20-2007, 05:09 PM

Smoking is an ADDICTION. The additives in cigarettes make it so. The tobacco companies know and knew this.

They absolutely should pay for risking people's lives and should pay to help people break the habit also.

However, people should also do everything they can to quit smoking as well.

TaylorHicksRocks

02-20-2007, 05:29 PM

Smoking is an ADDICTION. The additives in cigarettes make it so. The tobacco companies know and knew this.

They absolutely should pay for risking people's lives and should pay to help people break the habit also.

However, people should also do everything they can to quit smoking as well.

Yes this is true and cigarettes are more addicting now than ever before......look out Kids they are going to get you.....

sadie

02-20-2007, 05:50 PM

Parents can never start to early in teaching there children the dangers of smoking.
My father died from emphysema and possibly lung cancer (no biopsy of the tumor was done because of his already extreme poor health).
He literally suffocated to death, with me and a couple of other family members at his side.

He remembered his first cigarette, it was at AGE 6, behind a barn in 1937.
I think the companies, even in 1937 knew there were plenty of dangers.
No amount of money could bring me back one of the greatest men in the world. (No more hugs, no more kisses, and no more big smiles just because I walked in the room)

But I agree with others, there should be assistance by these companies to help people stop smoking. So until they offer these programs for free to the public, I shall not complain about the settlements.

sandy

02-20-2007, 06:51 PM

So if someone eats too much sugar and gets diabetes they should sue the companies?

If someone drinks and gets liver failure they should sue the liquor companies?

I don't think so. Personal responsibility. And I don't believe in suing anyone. Not ever.

Kat4Ever

02-20-2007, 07:15 PM

I don't think so. Personal responsibility. And I don't believe in suing anyone. Not ever.

What about medical malpractice?

Was it the patients personal responsibility to sew themselves up and make sure the doctor didn't leave anything in there that didn't belong.

You're a real special case, Sandy.

sandy

02-21-2007, 10:18 AM

Barack Hussein Obama smokes. I wonder if all the smoking/anti-smoking stuff would change if he was elected POTUS?

Kat4Ever

02-21-2007, 04:04 PM

Not that I confess to tracking every movement of Obama's but I've never seen him light up... so wondering how you KNOW he smokes.

Although maybe it's posted somewhere.

If he does, hopefully he would seek help and quit.

But I've a feeling it's just something else you made up. I could be wrong.

RushDog

02-21-2007, 05:24 PM

Barack Hussein Obama smokes. I wonder if all the smoking/anti-smoking stuff would change if he was elected POTUS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMcKzMsUes

"Do you smoke after sex?"

"I don't know, I haven't watched."

sadie

02-21-2007, 05:32 PM

So if someone eats too much sugar and gets diabetes they should sue the companies?

If someone drinks and gets liver failure they should sue the liquor companies?

I don't think so. Personal responsibility. And I don't believe in suing anyone. Not ever.

The difference between cigarettes and your other examples, is that the cigarette companies secretively added ingredients to make their product addictive in order to increase sales.
So they manipulated the free will of the public by adding a substance that has been proven as addictive as heroin.

Now if the Jello pudding company secretively added heroin to their pudding and caused your 6 year old son to become addicted to heroin, would you stand behind the Jello company and call it personal responsibility?

TaylorHicksRocks

02-21-2007, 07:20 PM

The difference between cigarettes and your other examples, is that the cigarette companies secretively added ingredients to make their product addictive in order to increase sales.
So they manipulated the free will of the public by adding a substance that has been proven as addictive as heroin.

Now if the Jello pudding company secretively added heroin to their pudding and caused your 6 year old son to become addicted to heroin, would you stand behind the Jello company and call it personal responsibility?

Very good point!!!

sandy

02-22-2007, 08:37 AM

LOL Rush....

We excercise our freedoms by choosing. I wouldn't sue anyone for anything. I would want a Dr. to correct the problem if he caused it. I know people who have been in awful accidents and don't sue anyone. They healed faster and credited their attitude and faith.

TaylorHicksRocks

02-22-2007, 08:40 AM

LOL Rush....

We excercise our freedoms by choosing. I wouldn't sue anyone for anything. I would want a Dr. to correct the problem if he caused it. I know people who have been in awful accidents and don't sue anyone. They healed faster and credited their attitude and faith.

Well when you sue a DR. for malpractice you don't go back to him to correct the problem.....:p

Kat4Ever

02-22-2007, 12:45 PM

We excercise our freedoms by choosing. I wouldn't sue anyone for anything. I would want a Dr. to correct the problem if he caused it. I know people who have been in awful accidents and don't sue anyone. They healed faster and credited their attitude and faith.

BUT YET YOU WHINE AND CRY ABOUT MEAN PEOPLE ON A MESSAGE BOARD AND THEN TURN AROUND AND 'REPORT' POSTS THAT YOU THINK ARE INCONSIDERATE OR MEAN.

LET'S NOT LIE, SANDY. WE KNOW YOU DO IT.

HYPOCRITE.

SO YOU'RE SO THIN SKINNED TO DO THAT.... BUT YOU WOULD NEVER SUE ANYONE AND JUST WANT TO 'WORK IT OUT'.

OF ALL THE LIES, SANDY... SERIOUSLY.

sadie

02-22-2007, 05:14 PM

We excercise our freedoms by choosing. I wouldn't sue anyone for anything. I would want a Dr. to correct the problem if he caused it. I know people who have been in awful accidents and don't sue anyone. They healed faster and credited their attitude and faith.

BUT YET YOU WHINE AND CRY ABOUT MEAN PEOPLE ON A MESSAGE BOARD AND THEN TURN AROUND AND 'REPORT' POSTS THAT YOU THINK ARE INCONSIDERATE OR MEAN.

LET'S NOT LIE, SANDY. WE KNOW YOU DO IT.

HYPOCRITE.

SO YOU'RE SO THIN SKINNED TO DO THAT.... BUT YOU WOULD NEVER SUE ANYONE AND JUST WANT TO 'WORK IT OUT'.

OF ALL THE LIES, SANDY... SERIOUSLY.
My oh my......I guess he was right............again