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Originally posted by Statikk HDM
Look at alcohol, a more costly lifewise and economy wise, you don't see people going, "Sue big alcohol!"
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Eh, Stattik...? Perhaps you're not aware that it is a recommendation by most doctors for people to drink one glass of red wine (read - alcohol) every day for its beneficial effects on the heart. Alcohol is not "bad", in moderation it is good for you.
In comparison, I can't see anything good about cigarettes. Not only are you poisoning your own lungs with dangerous carcinogens, you're also inflicting it on other people via your smoke (the dangerous bit) - after all, who here remembers Roy Castle? A famous trumpet-player, I believe, as well as a TV presenter, and he died of lung cancer caused primarily by breathing people's second-hand tobacco-smoke.
You can't ingest alcohol in the way you inhale tobacco-smoke (ie second hand). If you get cirrhosis of the liver from alcoholism, then it's entirely your fault.
This potential for people to sue tobacco-firms... reminds me of some of the sentiments going round in the TV programme I watched the other night - "Diet or Die". The people on there - all clinically obese - were all saying it was in some way the health service's fault that they were fat; it was never, ever their fault that they were obese. That
really pissed me off - especially the woman who was comparing her overweight status to someone with cancer ("If I had cancer I'd have been operated on straight away, but because I'm fat they see it as just a cosmetic problem, blablabla, poor me..." - for gods sake, woman, no-one's ramming those plates of chips down your throat...!).