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Judge: Big Tobacco Guilty of Decades of Deception
Fox News ^ | Thursday, August 17, 2006 | AP

Posted on 08/17/2006 2:54:34 PM PDT by stm

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered tobacco companies Thursday to admit they lied about the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes and to warn consumers in advertisements and packaging that tobacco is addictive.

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KEYWORDS: bigtobacco; govwatch; judiciary; pufflist; ruling; tobacco
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To: Kimmers

Remember, according to the Left, they (the Left) are the only ones who do not have to play by the rules.


21 posted on 08/17/2006 3:11:19 PM PDT by clueless123 (Colt Revolvers - The Worlds Right Arm)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Not specifically replying to YOUR post, but it won't be long before the Lawyers file another "big tobacco" wealth-appropriation bill (aka, civil suit) for "global warming contributions of smoking cigarettes"....

I believe the NEWEST ruling against big tobacco today is for the tidy sum of $10 billion (which will mean at least $5 billion for the lawyers).

22 posted on 08/17/2006 3:14:19 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: Gay State Conservative
In the 1930's,cigarettes were routinely referred to as "coffin nails".

When my Father started smoking in 1906, his Dad remarked, "Son, I've known an awful lot of old men who smoke pipes and cigars. Don't know many old cigarette smokers..."

23 posted on 08/17/2006 3:19:10 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: stm

Where the hell has this judge been? Tobacco companies have had to put warnings in ads and on packaging since the 1960s. This judge must have been living on the moon.


24 posted on 08/17/2006 3:19:11 PM PDT by calex59 (Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
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To: Gay State Conservative
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25 posted on 08/17/2006 3:23:08 PM PDT by SmithL (The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
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To: stm

This is like " Groundhog Day "


26 posted on 08/17/2006 3:23:57 PM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: backhoe
"Son, I've known an awful lot of old men who smoke pipes and cigars. Don't know many old cigarette smokers..."

In his later years,George Burns had a great line about his cigar smoking "three doctors have told me to stop smoking.Two are dead and the third isn't feeling too well".

27 posted on 08/17/2006 3:27:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Hot Tabasco

Rita Rudner, the comedienne once joked that "there are warnings on beer and wine that pregnant women should not drink. If it were not for alcohol most women wouldn't even be that way"


28 posted on 08/17/2006 3:28:09 PM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: Gay State Conservative
In his later years,George Burns had a great line about his cigar smoking "three doctors have told me to stop smoking.Two are dead and the third isn't feeling too well".

Well, my Dad made it to within a month of his 95th birthday- though in truth, he did quit in his seventies. He was fond of quoting "I've known more old drunks than old Doctors."

29 posted on 08/17/2006 3:39:13 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: stm
Image hosted by Photobucket.com BIG COURT is gettin out of hand...
30 posted on 08/17/2006 4:19:43 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Gay State Conservative

William J. Clinton appointee, March 22, 1994
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31 posted on 08/17/2006 4:27:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: stm
"there are warnings on beer and wine that pregnant women should not drink. If it were not for alcohol most women wouldn't even be that way"

LOL!

32 posted on 08/17/2006 5:09:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Gabz; SheLion; Diana in Wisconsin

ping


33 posted on 08/17/2006 8:12:48 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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To: highimpact
Is there anybody in America who doesn't know that cigarettes are addictive and harmful to your health?

Not only are there such people, but there's a large community of them on FreeRepublic. Daily, you'll see them denying tobacco's health effects. Sad cases.

34 posted on 08/17/2006 8:17:11 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker; Just another Joe; CSM; lockjaw02; Publius6961; elkfersupper; nopardons; metesky; ...
Is there anybody in America who doesn't know that cigarettes are addictive and harmful to your health?

Not only are there such people, but there's a large community of them on FreeRepublic. Daily, you'll see them denying tobacco's health effects. Sad cases.

I had originally planned on not bothering my Nanny State Ping list until I read this particular idiocy.........the idiocy is the bolded comments, not the ones that are only italicized.

The poster of the bolded comment has a tendency to post entire websites, that cause people who are on dialup to have thier computers lockup and require rebooting.

And that person has the nerve to talk about sad cases.........????

The sad cases are those types that insist on the use of government guns to get their way.........apparently Alter Kaker is one of them.

35 posted on 08/17/2006 9:24:53 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Gabz
The sad cases are those types that insist on the use of government guns to get their way.........apparently Alter Kaker is one of them.

When have I ever advocated the use of government to do anything? Are you making things up again, Gabz?

The poster of the bolded comment has a tendency to post entire websites,

I'm sorry, but the scientific evidence proving you wrong doesn't always fit in a pithy five word response. Perhaps you should consider investing in a decent internet connection.

36 posted on 08/17/2006 9:30:01 PM PDT by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: freepatriot32

This is just like...........too trucking fuch.........


37 posted on 08/17/2006 9:32:24 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Alter Kaker
Perhaps you should consider investing in a decent internet connection.

EXCUSE ME..........who are you to tell me what I should do? Oh that's right, you're an anti-smoker bigot who believes you are within your rights to tell others what to do.

For your information, skippy, I live in a rural area, if you have a means of getting Verizon, or anyone else to out here to upgrade stuff, go for it, I'll be all supportive.

Now to the topic at hand. I'm thrilled you are so cognizant of the empidemiologic studies reagrind SHS. Can you provide me with a few that show true statistical signifcance?

As I plan to shortly call it a night AND have a full day tomorrow, I won't witch if you take a while to find what I asked for.

People like you always amuse me. I was on a radio talk show a couple of months ago after the host had talked about his huffing and puffing years ago, going up the stairs to the second floor to his office at the newspaper he worked for. All I could do was laugh at him on the air. He was talking about when he was 30, when I was laughing at him I had just finished hand tilling, with a hoe, nearly a 1/4 acre of ground.........I'm 45. He doesn't denigrate smokers anymore. And he's an ex-smoker.

38 posted on 08/17/2006 9:51:26 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: stm; All

39 posted on 08/17/2006 10:32:09 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: stm
Hasn't there been a warning on the packages since the 60s?

How were they deceptive?
People knew they are cancer sticks for decades.
40 posted on 08/17/2006 10:34:54 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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