Jury Says RJ Reynolds Has To Pay $23 Billion

[Ridge]

Cause nothing like that would ever happen in liberal Colorado..

If Colorado is so liberal, then maybe not. Florida isn't exactly known for it's Democrat voting record...

[Gman]

Hey Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like? You know, the one with all the goofy shit on the walls?

[sniper7]

Wow, that is asinine

[ray1970]

Sweet. If I ever crash my motorcycle maybe I can get billions from Harley Davidson. I am unaware of any danger associated with riding a motorcycle.

On a serious note, even if this were to hold up, they would just pass the cost of the suit on to their customers.

[osok-308]

What is the world coming to?

I've had family members die because they chose to smoke. It was a poor choice on their side. When will we be held accountable for our own actions?

[Bailey Guns]

Florida isn't exactly known for it's Democrat voting record...

ReallY? Obama carried FL in 08 and 12. The Bush/Gore race was so close it had to be decided by the supreme court. Registered democrats outnumber republicans by almost 1/2 million people as of 2014. Bill Nelson has been a democrat US Senator from FL since 2001. There are 10 democrat US representatives. The FL senate includes 14 democrats, the FL house has 45 democrats.

So while it's true the state legislature has republican majorities, to say FL isn't known for voting democrat is quite a stretch.

And this jury award is total nonsense. I'm almost 54 years old. I've been hearing about how cigarettes will cause cancer and kill you if you smoke them since I can remember...at least the since the late 60s. For anyone to say they didn't know cigarettes can be dangerous is a lie, in my opinion. They may have believed it wouldn't happen to them, but there is no way in the world they couldn't at least know of the risks. This is demonization of the tobacco industry by government and lawyers, plain and simple. I don't think the tobacco industry is innocent by any means...but it's pretty hard to pin the blame solely on the industry when people who smoke have been told over and over by that very industry for decades that it's dangerous.

[speedysst]

Smoking dope is healthy though.

[Dave_L]

Everyone's a victim.

[Ah Pook]

Everyone's a victim.

Everyone wants a payday.

[Aloha_Shooter]

This brings up another pet peeve. Beyond juror stupidity, we have bred utter idiocy in our law schools so we are now plagued with a multitude of judges and lawyers. Some of the recent rulings to support crap that is clearly outside the bounds of the federal government under Article II, the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the Tenth Amendment or briefs and rulings playing word games that would make the Red Queen blush in order to push a social or political agenda rather than make good law .... aaaaaarrrrrrrgh.