Sling started it, miss...!

[Kilted Arab]

OK, bring it on!

Sling opened the door with a bit of Brit bashing....so let's ressurect this old classic!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2151754.stm

""I always thought it was good for you. I never thought there was anything wrong with it," he said. "

There are some good comments on the Talking Points page..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2153020.stm

I like the one from the bloke who talks about suing Stella because he suffers from hangovers! Quality! And the fat bloke who asks if he should sue his wife as she does the cooking!

[DaveE]

Just goes to show that STEWPIDETY is universal and that we are in no danger of a lawyer shortage in the states.

[Bravo]

How do you guys feel about the people who have sued the tobacco companies? The entire time there is a label that says it is hazardous to your health and they smoke them anyway and get cancer and sue.

Where is the self-responsibility?

[DaveE]

How do you guys feel about the people who have sued the tobacco companies? The entire time there is a label that says it is hazardous to your health and they smoke them anyway and get cancer and sue.

Where is the self-responsibility?

Like I said, no shortage of lawyers. If they hadn't tried to hide their own findings about health risk the whole things goes away. The coverup is usually worse than the crime, (watergate, Martha Stewart).

[Silver]

Actually, at least in Canada, most of the tobacco suits are from people that started smoking pre-warning labels.

[Bravo]

Actually, at least in Canada, most of the tobacco suits are from people that started smoking pre-warning labels.

So, have the courts thrown out suits brought by smokers who started after the labels were on the packs??

[DaveE]

So, have the courts thrown out suits brought by smokers who started after the labels were on the packs??

The suits that were filed by different states, Texas being one of them, had nothing to do with when labels were put on packs. These and other suits follow the deep pockets.

Texas had a homeowner's insurance crisis here a few years ago because wording in the policy ended up allowing lawsuits over mold being in a home. There was much publicity about how mold was toxic and people were becoming sick and dying from it. Some of the settlements were in the millions and insurance premiums for everyone else went crazy.

Then the insurance dept. corrected the policy wording and the lawsuits stopped. Like magic mold was no longer toxic and the lawyers had to move on to new deep pockets.

This is directed at you Silver. I don't know anything about the law there, but here we have way to many lawyers with not enough to do.

[Silver]

B, I'm not entirely sure if anyone has succeeded post-labels, but the big publicized ones were pre-labels. Even the province is trying to sue the companies now for having to pay for the increased medical costs due to smoking.

A woman in Ontario just died that was the first successful person in Canada to sue for second hand smoke damages. She got cancer from SHS after being a waitress for 30-odd years. I believe this was the case that created the widespread smoking bans in all restaurants, bars, etc. It's so much more pleasant to go into a bar/club now that you don't automatically stink just by going in. Now if only I went to bars and clubs.

[Silver]

Dave, I wouldn't blame the lawyers (entirely) as much as the greedy mongrels doing the suing in the first place. Or the retarded juries that gives MILLIONS for EVERYTHING down there. Or the judges that even allow the cases to proceed.

The best part about the fast food case was the judge that said "feck off you fat bastards."

Even in the mold case...who do you think it was that re-worded the policy for the insurance dept? Yep, a lawyer fixed it. Guaranteed. See, we're good AND bad!

[DaveE]

See, we're good AND bad!

Yep, nobody likes lawyers until they need one. The real problem here is that the law schools are pumping out new lawyers like crazy and the only way they can make it is to create problems where one didn't exist before.

Texas filed suit and won hundreds of millions based on the cost of treating patients. When it was over there was a huge scandel because they almost got away with giving most of the settlement to private lawyers that handled the case. Why the states own lawyers weren't handling it is a mystery, or a different scandel all together.

The amunition for the state suit was that even after the warning labels were used the tobacco companys continued to deny that smoking was dangerous. Then documents were discovered that the companies knew about but hid the dangers. They were basically screwed at that point.

It was nice to see the fat guy suits get thrown out but I'll bet it's not over yet. Unless a new threat with deep pockets is discovered first.

[Loop]

McDo's and other fast food chains mostly have no unhealthy food.
If people only eat one menu twice a day, they wouldn't get fat.
I must say, it is pretty staggering when I go just to my neighboorhood province Ontario, I see a lot of obese. It is worse when going to the US. And looking at their eating habits and the amount of food each person eats, I'm not surprised at all.
So just to be in vibe with you guys, lawsuits means money....

[Silver]

True Loop, it's mostly not what you eat as much as how much of it you eat.

Bad food in moderation - okay
Bad food in excess, but with a healthy lifestyle - not too bad
Bad food in excess, but with a typical North American lifestyle - obesity!