The friend who sent me a link to this article, commented "Stupid-people have known the risk." I might not have put it quite that way, but I agree. Its hardly like these risks haven't been known for a very long time. What's next? MacDonald's being forced to pay for bypass surgery because customers voluntarily have chosen to buy and eat cheeseburgers and fries? .... Not out of the realm of responsibility. Does this judicial trend perhaps represent another way to punish free enterprise thus leading to further governmental controls over private business? Not out of the realm of possibility. ~~~ S. Lane
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The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: Philip Morris may have to fund tests for smokers
Date: Oct 20, 2009
"The high court said yesterday that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA may have to pay for diagnostic chest exams so smokers can get early warning they have developed lung cancer, possibly opening a new front in tobacco liability lawsuits."
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http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/10/20/sjc_rules_philip_morris_may_have_to_pay_for_smokers_chest_exams/?s_campaign=8315
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The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: Philip Morris may have to fund tests for smokers
Date: Oct 20, 2009
"The high court said yesterday that cigarette maker Philip Morris USA may have to pay for diagnostic chest exams so smokers can get early warning they have developed lung cancer, possibly opening a new front in tobacco liability lawsuits."
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To see this recommendation, click on the link below or cut and paste it
into a Web browser:
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/10/20/sjc_rules_philip_morris_may_have_to_pay_for_smokers_chest_exams/?s_campaign=8315
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Via email, blog reader "K" added this comment today:
I have visions of the little snowball being made at the top of a mountain and then allowed to roll down hill and becoming one gigantic monster snowball!!! I honestly hope that Phillip Morris wins this case because if it doesn't---then the whole can of worms will be turned loose in this country. Like you said, McDonald's would then be forced to "pay" for people eating hamburgers and french fries. There is NO END!!! Horrors!!! YOU said it WELL
----- I like the snowball metaphor, "K" ~~ S Lane
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