Uh, who protected the tobacco companies when everybody and their brother started suing...including several states. The only people to benefit were the scumbag layers...
~"Uh, who protected the tobacco companies when everybody and their brother started suing...including several states. The only people to benefit were the scumbag layers..."~
I also wonder why none of the tobacco (you forgot to say "Big Tobacco" by the way) companies' lawyers tried to point out that the state who was suing the tobacco companies collected a considerable amount of money in sales tax and would seem therefore to be in partnership with the tobacco companies since they benefitted from the sale. Also the state gave cigarettes to prisoners and the federal government provided smokes for the military. They were in collusion with Big Tobacco all along. How did they get away with suing them?