Yes, I know I have been down this road before. I am always the one person that takes the side of the "bad tobacco" companies.
And I like it! I have been a smoker for 17 years and I looooove it! I will bitch about smokes til the day I die!

Anyhoo, back to the bitching at hand. I ran accross this today. A federal judge said that and I am quoting here "the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws, deceiving the public for years about the health hazards of smoking, but said she couldn't order them to pay the billions of dollars the government had sought" Hello! We all know smoking poses some risk but so does walking accross the damn street!

It absolutely kills me when I read shit like this. So its bad for ya! So is fast food, war, peta, and countless other crap I cant keep track of. So why in the hell are cig companies the only "bad" thing that has to advertise against itself? This is insane! Even if I wasnt a smoker, this would still be fornicateed up! So they dont have to pay the billions that the gov wants. Instead they have to write a paper that says we are bad for ya! I dont see a fed judge telling mcdonalds that their food sucks and they have to write a paper to tell you that!

WTF is wrong with America these days? America is supposed to be the land of the free! I am guessing that went down the toilet as the gov has to tell ppl what to do instead of parents or a choice!

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