As a war correspondent, Peter Jennings dodged bullets and bombings to bring people the nightly news.

As a lung cancer patient, Jennings didn't stand a chance.

"He didn't die from a bomb or a bullet," said Dr. Fadlo Khuri, a lung cancer specialist and professor at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute. "He died from a cigarette."

"I'm not sure that we can continue to go down this path [of blaming patients]," Emory's Khuri said. "We need to enforce smoking cessation laws and to increase prevention efforts. And we need to put the blame for this squarely where it belongs — on the tobacco companies and not the victims."

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What in the world are smoking cessation laws, smoking bans?

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Originally posted by squeezer:
And we need to put the blame for this squarely where it belongs

Where is it? There seems to be a consensus in the USA (sorry, I'm living in Europe where things are (still) a bit different, but slowly converting to the same mentality) that people aren't responsible for themselves, so somebody else has to be blamed. If Jennings had died in a battle field in Iraq, who would they have blamed? Nobody, because there is no money to be extorted!

Around 50 years ago, when I was about 10, I already knew that cigarette smoking was bad for your health (no warnings on the packets). Don't tell me that Jennings was lured into smoking based on Big Tobacco's claim that smoking was healthy.
But it's too easy and too lucrative to blame it on a rich company to extort money. Knowing that it's the smokers who are paying at the end.

There is something basically wrong with this mentality and this judicial system. It is ALL about money.