Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court upheld a nearly $37million judgment for a woman who claimed she developed lung cancer after switching from Marlboro Red cigarettes to Marlboro Lights because she thought they were less dangerous.
I used to pour bags of dry loose asbestos into a pan, add water and mix it up with a hoe. This was in dry dusty boiler rooms. Asbestos dust all around your head. Then take buckets of this muck and by hand smooth it over chicken wire covered expansion tanks. Most boiler rooms had asbestos shingled walls for fire proofing. The good ol daze eh?
Crabby, I've read everything Christe ever wrote. At least all I can find. I like to do that. Find an author I like and read all there stuff. I've done that with several including Michener, Stienbeck, Irving, Rutherfurd and several others. I say, so many books an alla that rot...
I've been smoking since pre-teen. Hell in the early sixties we would say, "Gimme a Cancer stick." Everybody knew cigarettes could cause cancer and we weren't but ten or twelve years old. I wonder if they still sell Chesterfield nonfilter. That was my smoke as a kid.
They don't sell plain Chesterfield in the U.S. any longer. They also don't sell non-filter Camel cigarettes here any more, They stopped selling non-filter Pall Mall three years ago. When they stopped selling non-filter Pall Mall, I had my local QT order every carton they could get. I paid $10/carton for the 18 cartons they could get me. When those ran out, I started smoking non-filter Pyramid Kings. I smoked Pall Mall non-filter for 32 years, and random whatever I could get for the 5 years before that. i've been smoking for 40 years and while I don't smoke 5 packs a day any more, but I have no plans to stop.
I read classic murder mysteries (Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers - stuff written a century ago), and cigarettes have been called cancer sticks, coffin nails, and gaspers since the 1920s. The Surgeon General's health warning has been on every pack of cigarettes since 1969 (including Marlboro Lights) - the plaintiff began smoking in 1971. It is absurd for any adult to claim she did not know the risk.
Camels and Luckies a good smoke but they were short. That's why I like the Chesterfield and the Pall Mall. On the Luckies, Lose straps mean floppy tits. And remember all the things to look for on a pack a camels. A couple, the naked women, turn the pack upside down and on the back in the writing ya could read maybe the year 1914. Used to rip a section of a piller off the corner of the Camel pack and give the camel a humogous cock. Shit I miss those days.
i smoked pall malls for a lotta years. one of the things i enjoyed about them was that cigarette bums would recoil in horror when you pulled em out. ahh...the little pleasures in life.
Demanded jury trial where likelihood of obtaining conviction higher. Civil trial, so unanimous verdict not required. Massachusetts, a haven for liberal AHs. Lotta good $37M will do her now. Oh, and NY guv wants to make cigarettes illegal. Based upon how well that works for opioids, I’d say it’ll be a huuuuge success. NOTTTT!
For the old military types…. Remember the Euros and their taste…. For American cigarettes….???? (I do believe there was more than nicotine in our smokes) Ed357
It's always someone else's fault and tort lawyers promote and feed off if this.
ReplyDeleteShe smoked 24 years.
ReplyDeleteI smoked 40 years and it didn't kill me, but asbestos sure did. Must've picked it up in my teens working odd jobs in construction. No one to sue.
I used to pour bags of dry loose asbestos into a pan, add water and mix it up with a hoe. This was in dry dusty boiler rooms. Asbestos dust all around your head. Then take buckets of this muck and by hand smooth it over chicken wire covered expansion tanks. Most boiler rooms had asbestos shingled walls for fire proofing. The good ol daze eh?
DeleteCrabby, I've read everything Christe ever wrote. At least all I can find. I like to do that. Find an author I like and read all there stuff. I've done that with several including Michener, Stienbeck, Irving, Rutherfurd and several others. I say, so many books an alla that rot...
DeleteI've been smoking since pre-teen. Hell in the early sixties we would say, "Gimme a Cancer stick." Everybody knew cigarettes could cause cancer and we weren't but ten or twelve years old. I wonder if they still sell Chesterfield nonfilter. That was my smoke as a kid.
ReplyDeleteThey don't sell plain Chesterfield in the U.S. any longer. They also don't sell non-filter Camel cigarettes here any more, They stopped selling non-filter Pall Mall three years ago. When they stopped selling non-filter Pall Mall, I had my local QT order every carton they could get. I paid $10/carton for the 18 cartons they could get me. When those ran out, I started smoking non-filter Pyramid Kings. I smoked Pall Mall non-filter for 32 years, and random whatever I could get for the 5 years before that.
Deletei've been smoking for 40 years and while I don't smoke 5 packs a day any more, but I have no plans to stop.
I read classic murder mysteries (Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers - stuff written a century ago), and cigarettes have been called cancer sticks, coffin nails, and gaspers since the 1920s. The Surgeon General's health warning has been on every pack of cigarettes since 1969 (including Marlboro Lights) - the plaintiff began smoking in 1971. It is absurd for any adult to claim she did not know the risk.
DeleteWell, it is MA where they elect anyone with a D after their name and all of the judges are Demonrat appointees.
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I used to smoke non filter Camel before I quit. If I had to have something with a filter I always broke it off, only way I could get any taste
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Pall Mall was a good smoke. I'd buy camels or luckies in a pinch.
ReplyDeleteCamels were my choice for years.
DeleteCamels and Luckies a good smoke but they were short. That's why I like the Chesterfield and the Pall Mall. On the Luckies, Lose straps mean floppy tits. And remember all the things to look for on a pack a camels. A couple, the naked women, turn the pack upside down and on the back in the writing ya could read maybe the year 1914. Used to rip a section of a piller off the corner of the Camel pack and give the camel a humogous cock. Shit I miss those days.
Deletei smoked pall malls for a lotta years. one of the things i enjoyed about them was that cigarette bums would recoil in horror when you pulled em out.
ReplyDeleteahh...the little pleasures in life.
Demanded jury trial where likelihood of obtaining conviction higher. Civil trial, so unanimous verdict not required. Massachusetts, a haven for liberal AHs. Lotta good $37M will do her now. Oh, and NY guv wants to make cigarettes illegal. Based upon how well that works for opioids, I’d say it’ll be a huuuuge success. NOTTTT!
ReplyDeleteFor the old military types….
ReplyDeleteRemember the Euros and their taste….
For American cigarettes….????
(I do believe there was more than nicotine in our smokes)
Ed357
Better flavor. Smoking a German Marlboro compared to an American Marlboro was like smoking a Kent.
DeleteOnly a $1.88 a carton then sell em to the Germans for 15-20 DM a carton. Exchange rate at $2.56 a DM you would make some extra money.
DeleteYet more evidence of why the US "legal" system has the reputation it has.
ReplyDeleteFucking parasites. I quit smoking Marlboro Reds two months ago after 45 years. If it kills me, I'll sue my soul for being stupid. No one else.
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