[gridlock]

If you want to make smoking illegal, then do so...otherwise leave these companies who manufacture a completely legal product alone...

I agree. Leave them alone. Eliminate any government interference, warnings or protections.

The lawyers would have the carcass stripped to the bone by week's end. The only way the tobacco industry has lasted this long is by hiding behind the government's skirts for the past thirty years.

[MrBlueSky2005]

Eliminate any government interference, warnings or protections.

Ok...fine by me. Everyone knows smoking is bad: if you chose to do it anyways, well...thats your choice.

The lawyers would have the carcass stripped to the bone by week's end.

I don't understand...you have all the laws restricting tobacco removed and then the lawyers destroy tocabbo? I would think (hope?) that the companies would...i dunno... have to do something drastic...as in, violate an actual law, to be held liable in court. Or maybe I'm wrong and things are like 1984 where there are no actual laws on the books, just a set of implied principals, that if violated, result in severe actions.

[LibertarianInExile]

"I agree. Leave them alone. Eliminate any government interference, warnings or protections. The lawyers would have the carcass stripped to the bone by week's end. The only way the tobacco industry has lasted this long is by hiding behind the government's skirts for the past thirty years."

If your theory is correct then the breweries and distilleries are in trouble next.