Tobacco companies sued by smokers?

[MergedLoki]

^This. I know damn well that smoking's bad for me, as is drinking to excess, eating fatty foods and not exercising enough. However, I've made the choice, so I take responsibility for my life choices.

However in recent times, there's a lot of people who instead of doing this, feel the need to bitch and moan and sue cuz it's not their fault they ended up ill/obese/paralysed/etc, so they go and sue a huge company for a payout. "To stop it happening again"; yeah, so the huge payout isn't the incentive? Yeah, and I'm the First Lady.

Well nothing says 'peace of mind' like a $750,000 settlement lol

[Nyoibo]

Well back as recently as I think the 50's ads still had things like "4/5 doctors recomend..."

[Lace Neil Singer]

Well nothing says 'peace of mind' like a $750,000 settlement lol

Mmm, just think of all the smokes you could buy with that.

[BroomJockey]

unless you're 120 you KNEW that they weren't lil sticks of longetivity.

You'd only need to be about 75, not 120, so it's easy for there to be people alive today, but you'll notice that she said Ontario filing. Not "People in Ontario." It's the government of the province that's filed, which means they don't need a single living person of age.

[Flyndaran]

You'd only need to be about 75, not 120, so it's easy for there to be people alive today, ....

Heh. That's describes my excessive drinking, chain smoking, bastard of a paternal grandfather. He will still outlive us all.

[Tanasi]

Look at some of the literature from the 19th centurary. Cigarettes were commonly called coffin nails. I don't know about Canada but here the surgeon general's warning was required on cig packs since the early 60's, so my opinion is anyone that has smoked since then doesn't have a case.
In my state the state legislature didn't use the money for it so-called intended purpose but used it to prop up state budget instead of raising taxes. That lasted until they run out of settlement money and then they raised taxes. If the state doesn't want to incur health care related expenses on smokers then don't allow them health care that they can't pay for, but if the smokers paid into the health care system while they were smoking then it's tough noogies for the state.
Some people are more suceptible (sp) to cancer than others, I'm sure we all know of people that smoked for decades and their lungs are clear but others that never smoked have died of lung cancer. My Dad never smoked but he either chewed or dipped since he was a small kid. Emphazima (sp) was one of the things he had problems with and never had any problems related to his chew.