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Holy crap. I can't believe I'm siding with tobacco companies, but that's absolutely absurd. First of all, it's been pretty common knowledge that smoking tobacco
by thinkpad20 12y ago
Holy crap. I can't believe I'm siding with tobacco companies, but that's absolutely absurd. First of all, it's been pretty common knowledge that smoking tobacco is unhealthy and addictive since the 60's. No one then or now who is smoking was doing so with ignorance. Secondly, there have been far more egregious instances of wrongful death (companies who didn't tell workers about dangerous chemicals they were exposed to, releasing toxic chemicals into the environment causing birth defects, etc); awarding 26 billion dollars to someone, which would put them in the top 25 richest people in the world, for a death nearly 20 years ago... I just can't see the justification. (Meanwhile, Ethan Couch kills four people drunk driving and goes to summer camp)
- gmuslera 12y agoConsidering that the tobacco industry is responsible for 5 millon of deaths every single year, probably all deserve the same punishment, if not life sentence for each of their present and past managers. Anyway, that amount and just to one... this looked like that was just a move from one of the tobacco companies to get rid of one of their competitors.