Tobacco companies ordered to publicly admit deception on smoking dangers

[slimvictor]

(CNN) -- 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."

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/27/health/tobacco-court-order/?hpt=he_c2

 

[Captain.Heroin]

I'm glad to hear this.

We should get rid of tobacco entirely if you ask me.

 

[slimvictor]

^I have no love for tobacco at all - I am allergic to the smoke, and can't even go into bars or clubs where people are smoking.
I have also lost an uncle to lung cancer from smoking (he was in his mid 40's).
But I think we should preserve people's right to poison themselves with tobacco - as long as scientifically-based information is provided with the tobacco. And they should do it out of my range of breathing, so as to not poison me as well.