Kyle R. Mcallister wrote: >Can anyone see the parallel with "big tobacco?" > >Something which may or may not be as bad as some would like us to believe, . . >.
There is no question that tobacco kills hundreds of thousands of Americans. >and which those who sue because they "care" really are not doing anything >about the problem, but profiteering from it. People like this are less than >useless. Lawsuits against tobacco have been tremendously beneficial. They have stopped the industry from advertising, and from targeting children. They have cut consumption in the U.S. by about half. "People like this" save tens of thousands of lives every year, and prevent millions of cases of painful cancer & lung disease. As long as big tobacco and big oil are going to use the government and the laws to foster mass slaugter and to sell the country out to al-Qaeda, I favor using the law to go after them. Any method that works is fine with me. If some lawyers end up with billions of dollars in their pockets, that's a lot better than enriching tobacco and oil execs and bin Laden. - Jed
