[DanZ]

Each individual smoker had to file. Before individual smokers could collect the victims died.

This is a bit odd - Smokers as Victims. Would this than qualify the Drug addicts, Alcoholics and Democrats as victims?

Or is this just a case of a LEGAL business being raped and having their profits stolen because of the Justice system and corrupt Judges?

One particular example of recent memory - chief Pirate Roberts allowing the OBAMACARE Theft of your money and the destruction of the best health care system in the world - simply by declaring that it is a TAX and ignoring the 10th Amendment?

One addition point - is ANYONE responsible for their own actions today?

[rodguy911]

There is a difference Dan. Years ago when a massive advertising campaign existed the cigarette companies misrepresented their product over and over to the point where hundreds of thousand of smokers died yearly.

In the drug business we don't see magazine radio or tv ads for pot smokers,coke users or heroine users,quite a difference.The dangers there are well know to the average user.

Not so with the tobacco situation in the earl days which is what the piece was about.