Posted on 05/23/2016 7:48:15 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
SAN DIEGO — Tony Gwynn's widow and two children filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to hold the tobacco industry accountable for the Hall of Famer's death.
The suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court by Alicia Gwynn and her children, Tony Jr. and Anisha Gwynn-Jones.
The suit says Gwynn started dipping as a 17-year-old freshman ballplayer at San Diego State. He died of cancer of the right parotid salivary gland on June 16, 2014, at 54.
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The tobacco companies paid a zillion dollars to the government in a settlement many years ago to prevent exactly this type of litigation.
The states then took the settlement money and spent it on anti-tobacco education er I meant pork spending projects.
If I’m on the jury I vote “not on red penny”.
Nope,it probably isn't.But neither is doing 100mph.And if you're killed while doing 100mph is it right to sue Ford or Harley Davidson?
Tobacco use isn’t ‘safe’ long term. But it is short-term. It is ALL a matter of acceptable RISK.
Skydiving, skiing, driving Nascar, smoking, working in a Quickie-Mart, construction work. Blah, blah.
There is NOTHING safe, just a sliding scale of risk. And then, in the end you die. And stay there eternally.
You makes your choices in this life, then you live or die with the consequences. (Side note, being born is 100% Fatal.)
So, REAL safety comes only with accepting The Savior.
Same way the McDonalds Coffee lady won.
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