I’m sure that hacking every morning didn’t tell you that smoking was going to kill you.
As a former smoker I can tell you that I didn’t need warning labels to tell me that it was bad for me. I knew with every puff I took. It’s time for personal responsibility folks. Stop with the lawsuits!
i think this will finally go to the us supreme court. because, if the fl supreme court disallowed the class-action suit, it’s looks like the 700k still pending suits that it’s going to wipe-out the money from reynolds and then they won’t have enough to pay out the class-action…
truly i think this headache, is the smokers fault.. like the previous person, how many actually read labels? does everyone read labels on the current cans of food they purchase? NO! i like the fact that the jury did say the smoker was at-fault as well. i think the amount is exorbant and needs to stop these high payouts. afterall, he did live til 68 and probably worked and may have retired. juries don’t look at that, they just look at the pocket book of the big companies. this has got to stop.
Crazy!! $26.6 million to the family of a smoker that lived until 68. So if I croak early of a heart attack, can my family get rich from a settlement w/ Snuffers Restaurant?
and you thought about this being a smoker…i just thought, what about those so-called second hand smokers? how much can i get out of them after living a 68 yr old life?
Am I losing my mind, or didn’t the Feds and the 50 states each settle with the big tobacco companies for about $170 Billion a few years ago? I though the whole point of that agreement was that was the end of these type of individual lawsuits…..
This kind of thing makes me hate to be called an American. If he was 68, he probably hadn’t smoked for long before the surgeon general started his public campaign about the dangers of smoking! I’ve been a smoker for 25 years, and for crying out loud, I knew the risks when I started. (Says a lot about me, doesn’t it?)I keep waiting for the class actions against McDonalds and Burger King for the heart attacks all those big macs and fries caused. Where will this insanity end????
The stupidity of the responses makes me hate that you’re called Americans.
The tobacco industry denied for decades that it was manipulating nicotine levels and even that nicotine was addictive.
You should try evaluating the information that a verdict is based on rather than relying on your own ignorance and emotions to form your opinions for you.
Interesting: Your response makes me wonder if you have any common sense at all. Who doesn’t know that smoking is bad for you?
It’s called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Look it up. Or do you need someone to do it for you because you are afraid you’ll get a paper cut from the dictionary.
another example of why tort reform is needed. I swear if we could do one thing that would help everyone- it would be tort reform. It would literally lower the cost of everything from insurance to consumable goods.
I smoked for 26 years and knew the risks. Quit back in 1996, except for a brief relapse when I smoked 4-5 per day. So here’s the deal – “Fred” smoked, died, and his family got $26M. But, “Fred” and I were poker/fishing/golfing buddies and I inhaled his 2nd hand smoke. Now that the widder has $26M, I’ll file a suit against her for what “Fred” did to me. Why stop with just 1 level of responsibility?
if you have ever read any articles on smoking, the actual recipe for smoking the gov’t knew about. it was held in the congressional vault for many years. this is why i am amazed that the fed’s decided to make a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco when in actuallity, they had approved it. read! but as said before, individuals do not to take their own responsibility! we don’t see folks doing this for the alcohol industry. we have not seen many lawsuits against the bars for serving too much drink. they make rehab centers, there are ways to get off the nicotine habit. it just a matter of personal choice to keep smoking, granted some folks will need help. now if he’s 68, he might have started let’s say at the age of 20, that would have meant he’d been smoking for 48 years. so you are going to tell me that over those years since 1950, he did not know?! don’t think so! i think it’s about time, we stop this frivilous lawsuits and think about personal responsibility for the choices that you make.
First you’re and idiot for smoking. Second you’re defending a company that has killed more Americans than Hitler killed jews. What is it now? Tobacco kills more than 440,000 every year. I’m no math major, but that’s over 10 million in the last 20 years. At least the juries are willing to do something about it, because we know congress won’t.
Sucking on something that is on fire and drawing hot smoke into your lungs and you can’t figure out it’s bad for you??? Here’s a warning: Better stay away from the BBQ.
Seems like everyone’s answer is for Congress to do something about it. Congress is the most corrupt institution we have ever had in this country and yet the entitlement generation looks to them to solve everything. Congress and the lawyers who control it- Academy of Trial Lawyers are the problem. Wake up.
Nice response. Try sticking to the facts instead of name calling.
Again, in this country who doesn’t know that smoking is bad for you? How many times a week are we bombarded with this message? Every activity has risks, driving, walking even eating. Accept them or don’t do the activity. Shall I arrange for a personal boy scout to help you cross the street?
…people might as well sue the estate of Lucille Ball, someone who promoted smoking in tv commercials, along with Dick Van Dyke and others (even the Flintstones). Maybe I shouldn’t post this; lawyers might get more ideas on how to fleece American society.
While I hate lawsuits like this (you know personal responsibility, etc), I love the fact that judgements like this just make the price of cigarettes go higher. That’s not such a bad thing is it?
Right, Plymm: only you get to be obnoxious and make personal attacks. So typical of the phony “personal responsibiilty” crowd. Please don’t bother learning anything about the basis of the lawsuits or the verdict; that might result in thinking, and I’m sure that would cause your brain to hemmorhage.
if you want to go that route, why not sue the movie industry, because how many movies were there that had always had someone smoking a cigarette or cigar to show coolness. the tobacco industry was truly getting a free publicity. but it’s not their fault that folks choose and again emphasize that word choose to smoke.
problem, is that society does not want to accept personal responsiblity. it’s always someone else’s fault.
I’m sure that hacking every morning didn’t tell you that smoking was going to kill you.
As a former smoker I can tell you that I didn’t need warning labels to tell me that it was bad for me. I knew with every puff I took. It’s time for personal responsibility folks. Stop with the lawsuits!
i think this will finally go to the us supreme court. because, if the fl supreme court disallowed the class-action suit, it’s looks like the 700k still pending suits that it’s going to wipe-out the money from reynolds and then they won’t have enough to pay out the class-action…
truly i think this headache, is the smokers fault.. like the previous person, how many actually read labels? does everyone read labels on the current cans of food they purchase? NO! i like the fact that the jury did say the smoker was at-fault as well. i think the amount is exorbant and needs to stop these high payouts. afterall, he did live til 68 and probably worked and may have retired. juries don’t look at that, they just look at the pocket book of the big companies. this has got to stop.
Crazy!! $26.6 million to the family of a smoker that lived until 68. So if I croak early of a heart attack, can my family get rich from a settlement w/ Snuffers Restaurant?
and you thought about this being a smoker…i just thought, what about those so-called second hand smokers? how much can i get out of them after living a 68 yr old life?
This is unbelieveable.
Each day that passes, we are becoming a society of no personal accountability and lottery winners.
Kind of makes you sick, doesn’t it?
Am I losing my mind, or didn’t the Feds and the 50 states each settle with the big tobacco companies for about $170 Billion a few years ago? I though the whole point of that agreement was that was the end of these type of individual lawsuits…..
This kind of thing makes me hate to be called an American. If he was 68, he probably hadn’t smoked for long before the surgeon general started his public campaign about the dangers of smoking! I’ve been a smoker for 25 years, and for crying out loud, I knew the risks when I started. (Says a lot about me, doesn’t it?)I keep waiting for the class actions against McDonalds and Burger King for the heart attacks all those big macs and fries caused. Where will this insanity end????
The stupidity of the responses makes me hate that you’re called Americans.
The tobacco industry denied for decades that it was manipulating nicotine levels and even that nicotine was addictive.
You should try evaluating the information that a verdict is based on rather than relying on your own ignorance and emotions to form your opinions for you.
Interesting: Your response makes me wonder if you have any common sense at all. Who doesn’t know that smoking is bad for you?
It’s called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Look it up. Or do you need someone to do it for you because you are afraid you’ll get a paper cut from the dictionary.
Hi Plymm. Your response makes me wonder if you’re mentally challenged. :-)
i swear, i will turn this car around…….
another example of why tort reform is needed. I swear if we could do one thing that would help everyone- it would be tort reform. It would literally lower the cost of everything from insurance to consumable goods.
I smoked for 26 years and knew the risks. Quit back in 1996, except for a brief relapse when I smoked 4-5 per day. So here’s the deal – “Fred” smoked, died, and his family got $26M. But, “Fred” and I were poker/fishing/golfing buddies and I inhaled his 2nd hand smoke. Now that the widder has $26M, I’ll file a suit against her for what “Fred” did to me. Why stop with just 1 level of responsibility?
ok, here’s one problem:
if you have ever read any articles on smoking, the actual recipe for smoking the gov’t knew about. it was held in the congressional vault for many years. this is why i am amazed that the fed’s decided to make a class-action lawsuit against the tobacco when in actuallity, they had approved it. read! but as said before, individuals do not to take their own responsibility! we don’t see folks doing this for the alcohol industry. we have not seen many lawsuits against the bars for serving too much drink. they make rehab centers, there are ways to get off the nicotine habit. it just a matter of personal choice to keep smoking, granted some folks will need help. now if he’s 68, he might have started let’s say at the age of 20, that would have meant he’d been smoking for 48 years. so you are going to tell me that over those years since 1950, he did not know?! don’t think so! i think it’s about time, we stop this frivilous lawsuits and think about personal responsibility for the choices that you make.
I picked a bad time to give up sniffing glue…..
It would be like an individual getting liver disease from drinking and then suing Anheuse Bush…wait a minute…
Esquire, you are TOO funny! Great comment.
First you’re and idiot for smoking. Second you’re defending a company that has killed more Americans than Hitler killed jews. What is it now? Tobacco kills more than 440,000 every year. I’m no math major, but that’s over 10 million in the last 20 years. At least the juries are willing to do something about it, because we know congress won’t.
Sucking on something that is on fire and drawing hot smoke into your lungs and you can’t figure out it’s bad for you??? Here’s a warning: Better stay away from the BBQ.
Seems like everyone’s answer is for Congress to do something about it. Congress is the most corrupt institution we have ever had in this country and yet the entitlement generation looks to them to solve everything. Congress and the lawyers who control it- Academy of Trial Lawyers are the problem. Wake up.
Nice response. Try sticking to the facts instead of name calling.
Again, in this country who doesn’t know that smoking is bad for you? How many times a week are we bombarded with this message? Every activity has risks, driving, walking even eating. Accept them or don’t do the activity. Shall I arrange for a personal boy scout to help you cross the street?
…people might as well sue the estate of Lucille Ball, someone who promoted smoking in tv commercials, along with Dick Van Dyke and others (even the Flintstones). Maybe I shouldn’t post this; lawyers might get more ideas on how to fleece American society.
While I hate lawsuits like this (you know personal responsibility, etc), I love the fact that judgements like this just make the price of cigarettes go higher. That’s not such a bad thing is it?
Right, Plymm: only you get to be obnoxious and make personal attacks. So typical of the phony “personal responsibiilty” crowd. Please don’t bother learning anything about the basis of the lawsuits or the verdict; that might result in thinking, and I’m sure that would cause your brain to hemmorhage.
if you want to go that route, why not sue the movie industry, because how many movies were there that had always had someone smoking a cigarette or cigar to show coolness. the tobacco industry was truly getting a free publicity. but it’s not their fault that folks choose and again emphasize that word choose to smoke.
problem, is that society does not want to accept personal responsiblity. it’s always someone else’s fault.