Government suing tobacco for 280 billion
 

http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/d...6078-0,00.html

They say tobacco has been deceiving us for 50 years so they have to pay almost 300 BILLION dollars.

If anyone in the past 30 years that smokes doesn't know it's bad for you needs to be shot on sight for being so damn stupid.

I don't smoke and I hate smelling like smoke, but this is just bullshit. However, I do drink, and I see them going after liquor after cigarettes are out of the way.

Ha!

I'm sure they're $280 billion short to fight another war.

Following the same logic the government should be able to sue Fast Food companies.

And what are they gonna do with the money?

invade Canada

I don't smoke or drink so I don't got that problem :-)

Nice.

So they really think that tobacco has been killing people. 'Scuse me while I laugh my ass off. :1orglaugh

Smoking atleast 50 cigarettes a day is actually good for you

They say tobacco has been deceiving us for 50 years so they have to pay almost 300 BILLION dollars.

government knew what it was and continued to allow it just like they do now.

you are part of the problem or part of the cure.

they knew they could make money from it so they let it go on.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You can't just ban cigarettes.. there is way to much money involved with that.

Is the whole tobacco industry in the US even worth 280 Billion?

ok smokes are bad for you but like drink isnt! i mean they are running a close race on deaths between drunk drivers killing and liver disease

Because of the link url... I thought this was some other country suing big tabacco.

But it is the US.....

LOL. Man. And it's not even October yet :1orglaugh

exactly

And they damn well should ---

The reason America is filled with fat people is not so much because they have low will power as it is because so much of it's food supply is loaded down with drugs like MSG that make you consume more of the product.

FYI.. they inject lab rats with MSG when they want to make some fat rats to do studies on obesity.

www.msgtruth.org

www.truthinlabeling.org

We'd just end up burning the White House down again. :1orglaugh

Our government sucks.
This is just going to drive the price of smokes up more.
I mean they dont get enough money from taxing the shit out of them already....I'm half glad they wont legalize weed, if they did 60% of my income would go to them, as oppose to the 50% it is now.:mad:

280 billions is nothing to tobacco :Graucho

its the governments way of picking up a few extra bucks for this war thing thats going on

A lot of lawyers are about to become Billionaires.

:Graucho