Drugs and other Scooby Snacks

[Lady Sidhe]

I think tobacco should be legal...

Ah, the tobacco companies and the illiterates who sue them....

As a smoker myself, I feel that anyone who wants to buy a pack of cigarettes should be required to READ ALOUD the warning on the pack to the cashier. If they can't--no cigarettes. That way, all these people who sue the companies, claiming that they didn't know cigarettes were harmful, will no longer have that pathetic excuse (COME ON, people! You're inhaling SMOKE!).

Likewise, I think the tobacco companies should have a uniform warning: "Warning: use of this product can cause health problems and/or death." It won't stop people who really want to smoke, and it WILL stop all of these frivolous lawsuits by people who don't want to take responsibility for their own actions.

AND, in a related issue, I think that if one can sue the tobacco companies for causing illness and death, then anyone harmed by a drunk (drunk drivers, drunk family members, drunk strangers.), anyone who develops health problems due to alcohol (cirrhosis of the liver, alcohol poisoning, retrograde amnesia, alcohol addiction), and the families of anyone who is killed because of alcohol (drunk driving/drunk drivers), should be able to sue the alcohol companies. It's the same premise. If the tobacco companies are responsible for the actions and health of people who use its product, then alcohol companies should be also.

Hell, why don't we go ahead and expand it to include ANY company that sells a dangerous product that people use voluntarily? How about cars? Electrical luxuries? Pets? Foods with saturated fats in them? Caffeinated products? All of them can potentially harm you, after all.

See how far this can go, people? This is what can happen when we stop holding people responsible for their own actions. The companies aren't responsible for our choices, WE are.

Sidhe