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To: MeDroogies who wrote (2880)	5/25/1999 7:49:00 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 13056

MD, Then you believe the tobacco companies are culpable in the deaths of millions of smokers? I'd say the smokers, knowing the risks, took the chance themselves. I know one smoker who claims that she's not worried, if she gets something she'll sue.... What has happened to the tobacco companies has basically let the genie out of the bottle in our grossly overly litigious society. Lifestyle choices and responsibility for ones own decisions are fading under the onslaught of "blame anyone or anything else for my own fckups". Personally, I'm sick of it. I really don't know which I find more disgusting, those who smoke tobacco and sue for health consequences or those who prosecute marijuana smokers and throw them in jail for years. Providing the means of demise is not the same as committing the act.* Tell that to the greedy bonehead politicians in LA and SF who today have joined several other cities in sueing firearms companies to recover damages for crimes committed using their legally manufactured and sold products, once again removing personal responsibility from the equation. I've never owned a gun and don't care about them one way or the other, but I'll sure as hell fight for the 2nd amendment and for any company that's being unjustly and frivilously sued in this manner. Those who instigate these type of lawsuits had better hope that I'm not on the jury when any of them are being tried. <gg> JB