Tobacco companies ordered to publicly admit deception on smoking dangers

[liberty2897]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/health/tobacco-court-order/


Tobacco companies have been ordered by a federal judge to publicly admit, through advertisements and package warnings, that they deceived American consumers for decades about the dangers of smoking.
Federal Judge Gladys Kessler issued her ruling Tuesday in one of the last legal steps settling liability in the long-running government prosecution of cigarette makers.
"By ensuring that consumers know that [tobacco companies] have misled the public in the past on the issue of secondhand smoke in addition to putting forth the fact that a scientific consensus on this subject exists," said Kessler, "defendants will be less likely to attempt to argue in the future that such a consensus does not exist."

[mad cow]

46 year tobacco smoker here.How many decades have warning labels been on cigarette packs?50 years ago,before I started smoking,they were known as 'cancer sticks' and 'coffin nails'.Anybody pleading ignorance is a moron or is lying.

[nobody's_hero]

Tobacco Company: "Smoking is devastating for you."

Smoker: "Whatever. I want another pack of reds."

How long do we continue to do this song-and-dance? People are gonna smoke if they want to smoke.

Not safe for work (goes without saying, really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqez80giYY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9NtA80qHg

[BAllen]

Common tale is that the white man won the west by poisonong the indians with whiskey. Yet how often have you heard the indians demonized for introducing us to tobacco? Why aren't they going around to the reservations demanding they pay for the hardship created by tobacco? In reality, it was just two peoples trading drugs, tobacco and alchohol. Both are damaging to one's health, and no one is forced to take either one, are they? I used to smoke and drink, and do neither today. I knew it was my responsibility to quit.