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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Everyone in this thread is missing the boat, actually - the 'real' issue at play from the tobacco manufacturer is that there is a strong paper trail suggesting that the tobacco companies a.) knew about the harmful effects of their products as early as the 1940s and b.) systematically sought to hide this information from the American public, through misdirection, sponsoring illegitimate research, and flat-out lying (including to Congress).
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I don't think we missed this.
The point that some of us are making is that personal responsibility is not removed from the equation since substance use and abuse do not always warrant a lawsuit. Moreover, if we are going to make the tobacco companies take half of the blame, the government should be stepping in and/or there should be multiple victims named in these lawsuits. That would really drive the message home.
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