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Smokers merit sympathy, but not damages

    We sympathize with John Maloney and millions of others who have lost loved ones to cancer caused by cigarettes.
    But it’s harder to sympathize with the idea that they should be awarded damages by juries in part because the smoker was unaware of the risks.
    That’s the case with Maloney and more than 100 other Lee County residents among thousands of plaintiffs, whose $145 billion damage award was thrown out. The 700,000 parties to the class-action suit were directed to fi le individual suits.
    Among the issues will be whether smoking probably caused the victims’ diseases and whether they were aware of the dangers.
    We believe tobacco is addictive and a deadly danger. And tobacco companies have over the years concealed evidence of its harm. But U.S. surgeon generals’ warnings about the dangers of smoking have been required on tobacco packaging for more than 40 years. Tobacco advertising has long been banned on TV and radio, and the dangers of smoking have been a continuous topic of public debate. People who smoked through those years cannot credibly claim to have been unaware of the serious risk. They made a bad choice. It’s better for society to concentrate on helping people make better choices.
--The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.

Well that just goes to prove how our judicial system is in need of repair. No one that smoked, and were damaged by it, should receive any compensation what so ever. If that were the case, than everyone who ended up with liver disease due to alcohol consumption should be compensated as well. If the lawyers can make money from it...they sue!!!  And the judges, that are asking for a pay increase, still preside over these stupid cases.

Bumble-
The crazy thing is that The New England Journal of Medicine reported a study showing most alcoholics die of a cardio-respiratory related illness- not liver disease - traffic accidents - suicide or anything else-

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Bumble-
The crazy thing is that The New England Journal of Medicine reported a study showing most alcoholics die of a cardio-respiratory related illness- not liver disease - traffic accidents - suicide or anything else-

Which is cardio-edema which can lead to congestive heart failure and respiratory arrest, and high blood pressure, especially when coupled with other poor choices....it is found alot in the college age kids that binge all weekend and they end up with monday morning high blood pressure due to fluid engorged blood vessels of the heart....