Posted on 07/19/2014 11:24:15 PM PDT by Innovative
A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 billion in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation's second-biggest cigarette maker.
The judgment, returned on Friday night, was the largest in Florida history in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a single plaintiff, according to Ryan Julison, a spokesman for the woman's lawyer, Chris Chestnut.
After a four-week trial and 11 hours of jury deliberations, the jury returned a verdict granting the widow $7.3 million and the couple's son $9.6 million in compensatory damages.
The same jury deliberated for another seven hours before deciding to award Robinson the additional sum of $23.6 billion in punitive damages, according to the verdict forms.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Know how you can tell a fear monger? They always speak in dire terms of “risk”, but will never attempt and will actively avoid trying to quantify exactly how much “risk” is actually involved.
Everyone with a brain.
Now we're treated to the Bandwagon fallacy. This is starting to read like a textbook propaganda piece.
You can throw every label you can find, but it's not helping you prove that e-cig second hand vapors are safe. You haven't used Red herring or Non-sequitor yet. But they aren't going to help you either.
You can throw every label you can find, but it's not helping you prove that e-cig second hand vapors are safe. You haven't used Red herring or Non-sequitor yet. But they aren't going to help you either.
Cherry-picked "facts" are half-truths, the most seductive kind of lies.
There is nothing cherry picked about the FDA or German study facts. LOL you’re just throwing out terms now.
Anybody with half a brain who thinks about it, will tell you that breathing in a bunch of chemicals that haven’t been tested for safety, is not safe.
And anybody that can read can see that what started you as "no long term testing" just became "haven't been tested".
Suddenly we're supposed to believe that no one, including the manufacturer did any testing at all.
You don't know it isn't safe. I think you just don't like it, and don't really care if what you say about it is true, as long as you get what you want.
They weren’t called “Coffin Nails” 70+ years ago for nothing.
Neither the German study nor the FDA is aware of any scientific testing that the stuff is safe.
Smoke e-cigs at your own risk. They are probably safe than the known risks of standard cigs. But don't expect other people to breathe your leftover chemicals.
Neither the German study nor the FDA is aware of any scientific testing that the stuff is safe.
Smoke e-cigs at your own risk. They are probably safe than the known risks of standard cigs. But don't expect other people to breathe your leftover chemicals.
ever hear that "saturated fats are bad for your health" ?... for decades right?
No studies or testing at all.
That's easy to say, but proving a negative is a very problematic proposition.
I'd be more inclined to believe they did do some testing, and then abused the data like they did with Saccharin.
Thanks, I will. You can lay awake at night worried that you might have just inhaled a nicotine molecule.
I'll sleep peacefully knowing that the company I work for has already banned them from the work place. And that the FDA is working on regulating them so that there will not be a repeat of what people had to put up with from smokers in the past.
Hubris and bureaucracy. Yeah, we need us some more of that.
Sadly, Yes we do. Because many smokers still haven't learned to be respectful of other people's rights.
That's the hubris talking.
you’re not getting it and your question proves it. it’s not about that.
done with you.
I thought it was a simple question. Anyway, have a nice day.
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