Re: State tobacco suits
Topics: Rights, Misc
29 May 1994
From: ervan
> JACKSON, Miss. (Reuter) - Mississippi Monday became the first state to
>sue the tobacco industry, saying it was owed hundreds of millions of dollars
>in tax money used to cover state health costs for smoking-related illnesses.
[...]
> Gov. Lawton Chiles signed a law touted as the nation's toughest
>anti-tobaco measure Thursday...
> The law, which takes effect July 1, is designed to make it easier to win a
>court victory over an opponent that has so far been invincible: the tobaco
>industry has never had to pay damages to any smokers who have sued.
[by removing the need to show that a particular party was even involved]
Some of you might not realize I have been giving Thomas gasoline for
his Hyundai Scoupe for several months now. Nor did you realize that I
have been stealing this money from the STC snack room fund. But with
this new approach, I can now make everything right. I'm going to sue
Ford for the money I took from STC. You ask why sue Ford when Thomas
drives a Hyundai? Well, because on average across all suits, all car
makers will pay and afterall it's their fault that I was encouraged to
steal in order to buy gasoline. Oh, BTW, I'll keep anything I win in
the suit.
---Ervan
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