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To: SmithL

Lawyers are going to sue the tobacco industry out of business.

This is a good thing.


6 posted on 02/02/2006 10:51:29 AM PST by gridlock (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: gridlock
This is a good thing.

Until you have millions of smokers going through nicotine fits and getting meaner than a junkyard dog. I'm gonna tell them that YOU said it was a good thing...hee hee hee...

7 posted on 02/02/2006 11:03:26 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: gridlock
Lawyers are going to sue the tobacco industry out of business.

This is a good thing.


Is it? So the lawyers can do what? Move on to the fast food and alcohol companies?

If you want to make smoking illegal, then do so...otherwise leave these companies who manufacture a completely legal product alone...
8 posted on 02/02/2006 11:04:09 AM PST by MrBlueSky2005
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To: gridlock

How is using the courts to shut down any business a good thing?


12 posted on 02/02/2006 11:15:20 AM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: gridlock

You're on the wrong website, buddy....


18 posted on 02/02/2006 11:35:46 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature - Jim Beam)
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To: gridlock

"tobacco companies" are diverse multinationals.

You may "feeeeeel" good about attacking legal profits but you have no concept of business. These suits are NOT about damages or harm. These suits are about social engineering behavior to comply with approved conduct.

Today tobacco, tommorrow it will be "conservative forums/blogs cause stress" and should have warnings and then be regulated. Perhaps we will have a lawyer filing a class action for "Freerepublic addiction".


26 posted on 02/02/2006 11:50:18 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: gridlock

Sorry to burst your bubble but the government ain't gonna let that happen, they are as addicted to the tax revenue as the people are to the tobacco.


32 posted on 02/02/2006 11:59:35 AM PST by tom paine 2
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To: gridlock

And what do you suppose all those unemployed lawyers are going to do then?


44 posted on 02/02/2006 12:42:17 PM PST by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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To: gridlock

People choose whether to smoke or not. The Attack Lawyers inflict their poison on all of society.

Forcing the Attack Lawyers out of business would be a good thing.


46 posted on 02/02/2006 12:47:51 PM PST by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: gridlock

"Lawyers are going to sue the tobacco industry out of business.

This is a good thing."

Prohibition without legislation is a good thing? What other legislation would you like to see come from the bench?


54 posted on 02/02/2006 1:46:40 PM PST by CSM (Lick a finger, politicize the wind, and place the finger into the wind. - EGPWS, 1/26/2006)
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To: gridlock
Lawyers are going to sue the tobacco industry out of business.

This is a good thing.

Until they decide that penalizing your innocent pleasure would be "a good thing".

58 posted on 02/02/2006 7:19:25 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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