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The money will be spent in a 25-year period mostly for treatment for cancer victims.
Basically, 46 states, the District of Columbia and 5 U.S. territories got together and sued the major tobacco companies to try to recover some of the billions of tax dollars spent caring for sick smokers. The tobacco companies settled out of court, signing an agreement to pay the states a certain amount of money, and the states then funded the American Legacy Foundation with a very small portion of that money.
truth is funded by the American Legacy Foundation - an independent, public health organization created in 1998 as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA).
Originally posted by Umbrax
If a company sells a product that kills it's customers then, yeah it should have to pay back society.
Originally posted by Umbrax
MCory1, the main difference between the thing you listed and smoking is that smoking is chemically addictive.
If you like smoking and wish to continue smoking that is your choice.
However for many others who really want to quit, can barely do it, if at all. Quiting smoking is one of the hardest things a person can do. And many people start smoking before the legal age, before they can make the responsible decision to not pick it up.
Originally posted by Odium
The problem with the argument; "IT is my body" is still the fact smoke can harm other people around you. The amount of times I walk down the street and people blow smoke near my face is disgusting and not just harming themselves but other people who do not wish to be placed into such an enviroment.
There are laws in place that make it clear, conspiracy to hide harmful effects of a product and/or conspiracy to increase harmful/addictive properties
And Coke, Im not even gonna go there!
Coca-Cola is just like the tobacco companies. Coke should be treated the same as well.