Lawsuits against tobacco companies

[Mike_Yates]

It says right on the packaging that smoking is very bad for you and causes cancer.

Also, it is common knowledge that smoking is bad for your health.

Why do people make millions upon millions of dollars in lawsuits after developing a chronic or terminal illness from smoking cigarettes?

Were they actually that stupid that they didn't know the negative health effects of smoking?

Just like drug addicts, I feel no pity for people who die from tobacco addictions. If they were stupid enough to start the habit in the first place, then they deserve to suffer it's consequences.

Throughout the decades, tobacco companies have had to pay out countless billions of dollars in individual and class action settlements. I'm sorry but I have to side with the tobacco companies and not the dumb people who were so stupid and weak to fall into the perpetual scam that is a nicotine addiction.

I think that the surgeon general's warning label on tobacco products creates a legal loophole to immunize cigarette companies from most litigation filed by greedy buffoons who are probably only suing so they can get rich.

And just for the record, I don't drink, I don't do drugs, and I don't smoke.

 

[cum2ut]

You're wrong...not most litigation is brought on by greed...all of it is! The problem was the first jury handing out both unecessary & unwarranted outrageous punitive damages in the first lawsuit. As soon as they did, they set a precedent that every tort attorney grabbed & ran with. Personally, I don't believe that the lawsuit should've been brought in the first place. If you're too stupid to know that you can possibly die from what you're doing, then you don't deserve money from it. Both my grandfathers & two uncles died from smoking, but we didnt sue anyone. Its the same for the idiots who sue gun companies. Once that product leaves the factory, unless it has a defect, the company shouldn't be held liable for what someone does with it.

 

[Sean]

If you're too stupid to know that you can possibly die from what you're doing, then you don't deserve money from it..

Now, yeah. But big tobacco fought for years to keep evidence of smoking being harmful out of the public arena. They lied, obfuscated and committed fraud to do it. Funnily enough, exactly the same people that did that are now working for the climate change denial lobby using exactly the same tactics.

 

[trysail]

Now, yeah. But big tobacco fought for years to keep evidence of smoking being harmful out of the public arena. They lied, obfuscated and committed fraud to do it. Funnily enough, exactly the same people that did that are now working for the climate change denial lobby using exactly the same tactics.

This made my day. I needed something to make me laugh out loud and you did it.

I've heard lots of lies in my day but this one is a genuine whopper. Anybody capable of repeating it with a straight face possesses a rare and special talent.

 

[Mike_Yates]

You're wrong...not most litigation is brought on by greed...all of it is! The problem was the first jury handing out both unecessary & unwarranted outrageous punitive damages in the first lawsuit. As soon as they did, they set a precedent that every tort attorney grabbed & ran with. Personally, I don't believe that the lawsuit should've been brought in the first place. If you're too stupid to know that you can possibly die from what you're doing, then you don't deserve money from it. Both my grandfathers & two uncles died from smoking, but we didnt sue anyone. Its the same for the idiots who sue gun companies. Once that product leaves the factory, unless it has a defect, the company shouldn't be held liable for what someone does with it.

Yeah, greedy lawyers cashing in on millions!

The lawsuit industry in America is almost entirely fueled by greed and legal corruption, and the attorneys are much more to blame than the plaintiffs.

Civil lawsuits cost the US economy a staggering $500BN per year. Only a small percentage of these cases are legitimate. Most of them are class actions against things like tobacco and asbestos.