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Originally Posted by DougB
I don't know the facts, but if he started smoking at 13, maybe he should be suing his parents.
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Well supposedly he is dead and won't be suing anyone but his family is. But if he died in 1996 at 36 and started to smoke at 13 , then he started in 1973 well after warnings were on the product. Since the USG allowed that this dangerous product could still be sold as long as warnings were on the label, doesn't that sound like they were placing the responsibility on the individual ?
So if I smoke now, and next year find that I have a problem caused by smoking, should I or my successors be granted a jury award to penalize a company selling a government approved product with warnings that it could cause my problem?