[MrBlueSky2005]

The families of any one of those 40,000 victims...

Victims?! Who knew that those evil docs were forcing these poor souls to smoke...and of course none of them could possibly know the health risks unless their doctor badgered them every visit...

[Just another Joe]

Who knew that those evil docs were forcing these poor souls to smoke

You mean your family doctor didn't sit you down on your yearly visit when you were 11 years old, give you a cigarette and a Zippo lighter, and tell you to smoke that thing, and to KEEP smoking them?

How awful your childhood must have been.

[Eroteme]

And how many of those 40K “victims” had already exceeded life expectancy for US males/females at the time of their unfortunate victimhood? Smokers or former smokers who die from anything short of an axe to the head—regardless of how old they are—are all gleefully tagged with the same grant-inducing cause of death.