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This stupid jury in L.A. (of course) awarded this chick 28 billion dollars for smoking her whole life and getting lung cancer. She's 64 years old, shes' already live a majority of her life. If the average life expectency is 74 years that means she had about 10 years left to live if she didn't have cancer, so they're awarding her 2.8 billion a year for every year her life has been reduced. Of course the woman smoker has no responsibility for her own actions. Warning labels or not, Phillip Morris lying or not, people have ALWAYS known that smoking is bad for you, you're lighting something on fire and sticking it in your mouth and inhaling and exhaling smoke, duh. Whatever happened to that 350 billion dollar settlement the tobacco companies made with all the states so these lawsuits would stop? That's right the states spent the money building new freeways insted of for health care and prevention of tobacco use.
Shouldn't the US government be included in this ridiculous lawsuit? They subsidize tobacco farmers and distribute the tobacco lots so farmers can grow tobacco.
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