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From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: California Sues Car Co.s
There is no question that tobacco kills hundreds of thousands of
Americans.
I didn't say it doesn't. Does anyone here actually read the entirety of what
I post?
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.
And ignore far bigger problems which we have to deal with. It is a waste of
taxpayer money. If these people care so much, let them spend their own money
on this nonsense, not mine. Here in the once great Buffalo NY, kids are
still getting tobacco products, in fact even more than before. There is a
sort of "draw" to that which is considered the forbidden fruit.
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.
So big tobacco is an ally of Osama Bin Laden? I suppose it was Marlboro that
started the fires in the towers...
Why not save all the taxpayer money and simply outlaw the sale to anyone who
is not already a smoker? Just let the ones who already are register, and
allow the sale only to them. I would think that this would appeal the the
far left very much, seeing as they love to make new regulations on American
freedom. Maybe the far right would also like it, perhaps thinking they are
doing their Holy Duty in keeping bodies pure.
I think it would be far better to spend those billions on fighting a true
war on drugs, not the sorry excuse for one which we have now.
...or spend those billions to find a cure for lung cancer? Now THAT would
save a hell of a lot more lives. But it wouldn't appeal to those wallowing
in the cash from tobacco lawsuits.
--Kyle (who does not smoke)
