Where are all the lawsuits over cigarette dangers?

[Rob B.]

Just read an article about juul getting sued over teen nicotine addiction, among other things. Juul and vaping in general are in the headlines every day. Where is the media attention on the catastrophic effects of cigarette addiction that's been going on for well over a 100 years? We know for sure that cigarettes kill you. Where are all the lawsuits over big tobacco getting teens hooked and damaging their health?

Teen’s Two-Pod A Day Juul Addiction Caused Massive Stroke, Lawsuit Says

 

[Jebbn]

Can you sue for your own dumbazzary?

 

[Rob B.]

Can you sue for your own dumbazzary?

Unfortunately, the U.S. is full of "dumbazzary" litigation. Seems to have taken over sports as the nations favorite pastime.

 

[DeloresRose]

Can you sue for your own dumbazzary?

Kids getting addicted to Juul fall under that category as much as smokers, imho.

 

[Rob B.]

Kids getting addicted to Juul fall under that category as much as smokers, imho.

Yes, but why are cigarettes not getting the attention for the insurmountable damage they have caused? For the countless teen addictions and lives lost. For the billions of $$ spent on damage to health and death. I just don't get it. Very unbalanced world view of this issue as far as I'm concerned. And, big tobacco gets to keep doing the damage to people that it's been doing for well over a 100 years

 

[mikepetro]

All those lawsuits got wrapped in a pretty bow by the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

 

[DaveP]

Kids getting addicted to Juul fall under that category as much as smokers, imho.

Someone needs to inform the kids about mouth to lung style vaping. Wait, most of them probably never smoked a cigarette before vaping. They know that smoking kills and vaping doesn't from what we know so far. If only adults who were former smokers actually vaped, the world would think that was a great thing.

 

[Jebbn]

Kids getting addicted to Juul fall under that category as much as smokers, imho.

Can people sue alcoholic beverage companies because they develop alcoholism?

 

[Rob B.]

All those lawsuits got wrapped in a pretty bow by the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Yes, which gives big tobacco a free pass to continue ruining peoples health and then killing them. In the mean time, the government and ignorant people want to take away a proven, much safer alternative solution that gets people away from and keeps them off cigarettes. Again

 

[Dudeman]

The easy answer is follow the money. Cigarettes equate to a lot of tax dollars. Don't forget the BT lobbyists.

 

[mikepetro]

As in most things associated with Government Regulation, follow the money.
Lots of taxes collected from tobacco, not so much from vape.
Teen vaping is just an emotional tool being used to justify a political agenda.

 

[Rob B.]

Personally, the way things are panning out, I am starting to believe that the master plan is to get millions of kids addicted to nicotine with the cool vaping sticks, take away the cool vaping sticks, leave them with only cigarettes to turn to.....BAM!!! Big tobacco wins again.

I mean really. Who owns a big piece of Juul? The only thing I saw when they invested in Juul, is they saw the writing on the wall and decided to throw in their millions to help get the kids addicted, so when it's all taken away, they still benefit when all the kids coming running to cigarettes.

 

[DeloresRose]

Can people sue alcoholic beverage companies because they develop alcoholism?

Not to my knowledge, but people can and do sue someone who serves them too much if there’s an alcohol related accident

 

[jandrew]

As in most things associated with Government Regulation, follow the money.
Lots of taxes collected from tobacco, not so much from vape.
Teen vaping is just an emotional tool being used to justify a political agenda.

And, as I understand it, the flow of money from the Master Settlement Agreement to some states is tied to cigarette sales in those states, and many states sold bonds against that expected flow of money (and may find themselves in default positions in the near future).

 

[Baditude]

Living Long Enough to Become the Villan: The History of the Federal Drug Agency.

 

[Rossum]

Kids getting addicted to Juul fall under that category as much as smokers, imho.

That might be true if a significant number of them were to get sick and/or die later in life because they're vapers, but at the present time, we have no indication that this is likely to happen.

Kids also get addicted to caffeine via energy drinks, but hardly anyone is up in arms about that because there's little to no harm in that addiction. So unless/until we see some actual harm from vaping, there is no moral justification for the outrage over under-age vaping.

 

[United States]

Let it go.
Big tobacco won a long time ago.

Efforts should now focus on smoking cessation devices remaining in a positive light. Lord knows there's enough energy against it these days.

 

[John Phoenix]

Where are all the lawsuits over big tobacco getting teens hooked and damaging their health?

Oh that's an easy one. They don't let you sue them anymore because the US government coupled with the corporate world are totally corrupt and fascist. That's just an opinion, not me being grumpy but I believe it's true.

 

[brad-man]

Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement - Wikipedia

 

[Rob B.]

Oh that's an easy one. They don't let you sue them anymore because the US government coupled with the corporate world are totally corrupt and fascist. That's just an opinion, not me being grumpy but I believe it's true.

Me too