[chuckles]

I have owned Philip Morris stock, on and off, for many years now. If the money was spent on cancer research that has been spent in courtrooms, all mankind would have benefited. Just look at the settlement with the states. The money was supposed to be used for health care and anti smoking adds, but has been frittered away on potholes and other projects. The government just lost a case for 145 billion from tobacco. What were they going to do with it if they won? Send money to rebuild Lebanon?

[spanalot]

"Just look at the settlement with the states. "

Liawyers have to eat , too!

[Smokin' Joe]

If the money was spent on cancer research that has been spent in courtrooms, all mankind would have benefited.

Thank you for 'getting it'.

Add in the money spent on doing computer simulations to decree "secondhand" smoke as evil, and all the redudnant 'studies' done to further villify smoking, and there would have been one heck of a research budget for biochemistry and microbiology to find ways to interrupt the mechanisms of the disease, once in progress.

Unfortunately, some here are so hung up on arguing about smoking, they can't get at the essential point, that of funding for research to cure all cancer, as opposed to rabidly targeting one source of carcinogens.