[SmithL]

Either Boeken is speaking from the grave, or AP needs a new editor.

[catpuppy]

... a Superior Court jury ... awarded Boeken $3 billion in punitive damages, which a judge later reduced to $100 million.

The lunacy of the jury versus that of the judge is only a matter of degree. Someone who smoked two packs per day and was shocked, simply shocked to find that he became ill from smoking was fooled only by himself.

[Gabz]

I have no use for Philip Morris..............but even less for these lawsuits and the ambulance chasers who pursue them, and the so-called "victims"

[calex59]

The average person in the 1950s and 1960s, I was there and I know, knew cigarettes caused health problems. You couldn't breathe right, you coughed constantly, amoung other things and people just knew they were not good for you. The ones who wanted to stop did so, the ones who didn't want to stop didn't.

In todays world if you do not know cigarettes cause cancer, or at least know they help cause it, you have a problem with denial.

This guy was responsible for his own actions and doesn't deserve a judgement of any kind. These lawsuits are BS and I am glad the senate passed the legislation to prevent the same senseless type of lawsuit against firearms manufacturers.