$3 Billion for lung cancer! WOW

[Broes]

$3 Billion dollar....

One american who used to be also an alcoholic and drug addict and smoke 2 packs a day for 40 years and never had a CLUE it might be unhealthy...

Now enough money to feed whole Africa....

Trust me, I hate smoking as much as the next astmatic guy and like to see smoking dealt with but 3.000.000.000 dollar as a 'reward' is ludicrous...

I hope he donates it to something worthwhile....

Broes

[Dnil]

he will never see it.  Philip Morris knows what it is doing with cases like this, keep it tied up for years.


If they go for booze next, Philip Morris will again be sued, they own Miller beer.  They also own Kraft and Nabisco. Ton of other companies owned by them to.  Think it is 10 cents out of every dollar spent at a grocery store goes to Philip Morris.

[Nifty]

As I mentioned on an earlier post, awarding the monies to individual plantiffs and lawyers is outright ridiculous and pointless.  3 billion sounds like a good sum, if and only if the vast majority of it goes to a charity.  In this particular case, I'd have absolutely nothing wrong with seeing "Tobacco company loses suit, must pay Cancer Research $3 billion!"

No offense, but the public has known smoking was unhealthy for a VERY long time.  Yup, the tobacco companies sell it, but the public is who buys and uses the product.  IMO, the plantiff deserves very little in this case, perhaps medical expenses.  The lawyers deserve some modest fee for being bloodsucking leeches, err, yeah, that's a correct metaphor.