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Jury hits tobacco company R.J. Reynolds with $23B verdict
So this womans husband died of lung cancer. Why? Because the cigarette companies never told him well enough that cigarettes can be bad for your health.
So the widow sues along with her band of blood sucking attorneys and the jury awards her $17 million dollars. For what???!!!!!! Nobody who smokes deserves even a dime for their travails.
Then this jury (liberal bleeding hearts I presume) awards her an additional $23 billion dollars for punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds because they were deceptive in telling us, or not telling us, how addictive cigarettes can be. This is not unprecented. $28 billion was initially awarded to a smokers widown in California (of course appealed and greatly reduced later) and others as well.
So this will be appealed and reduced to who knows what? But this is the insanity we live in. This victim society and this greedy litigious society demands money, and tons of it, for anything that has offended them. And this repugnant court system we have in this nation feeds right into it. Frivolous law suits abound, where if you (the accuser) lose, the defendant still has to foot his own bill. Happens all the time. And it feeds right into the pockets of the greedy trial lawyers association who make sure that congress doesnt dare change the rules. Greed is a sin and we will all be reminded of that on judgment day.
Cigarette companies have paid out well over $100 billion to states for their dishonest ways over the years and everyone is making easy money off of them. [Example: The State of MN who approved a new stadium for the Vikings realized they would fall way short of the revenues from electronic pull tabs to pay for it so they passed another law to tax every pack of cigarettes and additional $2.75 to pay for it. Never mind that smokers are reviled and banned anywhere near these new stadiums, but explain the fairness in that?] So now R.J. Reynolds is told --- you are the devil and we want another $23 billion because we want to punish you more for your evil ways. First of all, how screwed up is the the thinking of cowards on a jury to demand such a thing? Secondly, how screwed up is our politically correct world and how dare they keep using cigarette companies to whitewash their own putrid souls?
Alcohol kills how many innocent people a year on our roads? 10,000? 20,000? Question: How much were those families rewarded for their pain and loss? How much was Budweiser fined because their product causes cirhossis of the liver and death to an alcoholic? Was he warned enough by Jack Daniels or Seagrams of what might happen if he continues to indulge? How much has Coke or Pepsi or General Mills had to fork over because their sugar laced products caused diabetes and the victims were never told? How much does McDonalds have to cough up for artery blockage?
This politically correct world turns my stomach. They attack the easy devil because they have the media, and liberal phoniness, and vote hungry politicians on their side. But they are deceivers of real truth and fairness. They also have now made Christian teaching to be another devil. Our teachings against homosexuality and extra-marital sex and abortion and contraception makes us another blight on their beautiful world they imagine would be without us and R.J. Reynolds.
So this womans husband died of lung cancer. Why? Because the cigarette companies never told him well enough that cigarettes can be bad for your health.
So the widow sues along with her band of blood sucking attorneys and the jury awards her $17 million dollars. For what???!!!!!! Nobody who smokes deserves even a dime for their travails.
Then this jury (liberal bleeding hearts I presume) awards her an additional $23 billion dollars for punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds because they were deceptive in telling us, or not telling us, how addictive cigarettes can be. This is not unprecented. $28 billion was initially awarded to a smokers widown in California (of course appealed and greatly reduced later) and others as well.
So this will be appealed and reduced to who knows what? But this is the insanity we live in. This victim society and this greedy litigious society demands money, and tons of it, for anything that has offended them. And this repugnant court system we have in this nation feeds right into it. Frivolous law suits abound, where if you (the accuser) lose, the defendant still has to foot his own bill. Happens all the time. And it feeds right into the pockets of the greedy trial lawyers association who make sure that congress doesnt dare change the rules. Greed is a sin and we will all be reminded of that on judgment day.
Cigarette companies have paid out well over $100 billion to states for their dishonest ways over the years and everyone is making easy money off of them. [Example: The State of MN who approved a new stadium for the Vikings realized they would fall way short of the revenues from electronic pull tabs to pay for it so they passed another law to tax every pack of cigarettes and additional $2.75 to pay for it. Never mind that smokers are reviled and banned anywhere near these new stadiums, but explain the fairness in that?] So now R.J. Reynolds is told --- you are the devil and we want another $23 billion because we want to punish you more for your evil ways. First of all, how screwed up is the the thinking of cowards on a jury to demand such a thing? Secondly, how screwed up is our politically correct world and how dare they keep using cigarette companies to whitewash their own putrid souls?
Alcohol kills how many innocent people a year on our roads? 10,000? 20,000? Question: How much were those families rewarded for their pain and loss? How much was Budweiser fined because their product causes cirhossis of the liver and death to an alcoholic? Was he warned enough by Jack Daniels or Seagrams of what might happen if he continues to indulge? How much has Coke or Pepsi or General Mills had to fork over because their sugar laced products caused diabetes and the victims were never told? How much does McDonalds have to cough up for artery blockage?
This politically correct world turns my stomach. They attack the easy devil because they have the media, and liberal phoniness, and vote hungry politicians on their side. But they are deceivers of real truth and fairness. They also have now made Christian teaching to be another devil. Our teachings against homosexuality and extra-marital sex and abortion and contraception makes us another blight on their beautiful world they imagine would be without us and R.J. Reynolds.