No. 2 cigarette maker hit for 23.6 billion in Fla. verdict:

Now that is what I call a settlement. Needless to say this lady whose husband died as a result of smoking will be very lucky to see any of this settlement let alone 23.6 billion. The tobacco companies have ambulance chasers on their payroll that will drag out settlements for decades.

I would conclude that the jury in Florida wanted to send a message to the other tobacco companies that have covered up and were so deceitful in their admitting the “killer effects” of the cancer sticks they produce.

Although I am elated that the company was found guilty but there was no-one that I know of that put a gun to this guys head and made him smoke. It was a choice he made that eventually put him under the sod.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is only one of the companies that lied under oath about the hazards of smoking. What really disturbs me about the tobacco companies was their deliberate and continual deception.

They are no different than any big corporation like GM (Greedy Mothers) that deliberately lies about hazards of their products all of the sake of the “Big Bucks”.

The only way to hurt these “profit mongers” is through their pocket book. When these fines are imposed on them they should be compelled to immediately pay them and not have the latitude of dragging the cases through the courts for 20 years hoping to eventually having the fines reduced or being thrown out by a judge the needs a new swimming pool or a Bentley.

The heads of the different tobacco companies that deliberately lied under oath are as responsible for the deaths of the dummies that smoke just as the heads GM that covered up the defect of their cars that resulted in kill and injuring scores of people.

Lets not get the crying towel out for the “cancer stick makers”; according to one study the top six tobacco producing companies in the world made $346,200,000,000 in the year 2008.

According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 80 percent of all adult smokers begin smoking before the age of 18; and more than 90 percent do so before leaving their teens. What do they really care about?

As always it is about the money!!