On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:54:57 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:26:41 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I’m sure the jury award will be reduced, but it does send an interesting
message to the purveyors of cancer:

US Jury Orders Tobacco Firm to Pay Billions to Widow


A jury in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida has ordered the
country's second largest cigarette maker to pay $23.6 billion to the
widow of a longtime chain smoker who died of lung cancer at age 36.

The jury also ordered the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to pay $16.8
million in compensatory damages.

Cynthia Robinson sued Reynolds in 2008 on behalf of her late husband,
Michael Johnson. She claimed the company conspired to conceal the
health dangers and addictive nature of its products. Johnson had smoked
for more than 20 years, beginning when he was about 13 years old and his
widow said he had tried several times to quit.

Reynolds plans to appeal the court decision.

A lawyer for the cigarette maker said the size of the landmark award
went "far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness."


http://www.voanews.com/content/us-ju...w/1961319.html


Smoking=Stupid

I still contend that if you thought smoking was not dangerous 50 years
ago, you were too stupid to live. It is like diabetics suing sugar
companies and corn farmers..

These law suits are mostly designed to make lawyers rich and they are
very successful at it.

Agreed, and that's with a brother fighting lung cancer, who smoked for about 50 years.