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Originally Posted by PhiGam
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Cigarettes are addictive
Nicotine is addictive
Nicotine is in all cigarettes
People quit smoking with nicotine patches, gum, and lozenges
Therefore, nicotine is the addictive ingredient in cigarettes
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Your logic is faulty. Nothing you have said in your first 4 lines (before your
therefore) establishes as fact your conclusion. Yes, nicotine is addictive. Yes, nicotine is in all cigarettes. Those two true statements do not support your conclusion that "nicotine is
the addictive ingredient in cigarettes." They would support the conclusion that "nicotine is
an addictive ingredient in cigarettes," but they do not exclude the possibility of other addictive ingredients.
(And I might be disagreeing with KSig RC a little, although I could certainly stand to be corrected. My understanding of the current spate of litigation is that it focuses both on the tobacco companies' knowledge and alleged policy of concealment and misinformation
and on the companies' alleged manufacture of products that were in fact more addictive due to additives. Like I say, though, I stand to be corrected.)
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
If these companies are going to pay up, there needs to be a class action suit.
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That's what it was in Florida (where this case came from) to begin with. But the appellate courts said the determinations had to be made on a case-by-case basis.
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