News, Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife's death. (legal, attorneys, Obama)

[JD59]

(CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday.

Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife's death - CNN.com

[LML]

Originally Posted by John1960

(CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday.

Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife's death - CNN.com

And of course no one who never smoked has ever died in their 70s. Oh brother!!!

[Cyber Queen]

Originally Posted by John1960

(CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday.

Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife's death - CNN.com

Ugh this is crazy. Anything that causes you to freakin hack up a lung when you inhale it can't be good for you.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by dcadca

Ugh this is crazy. Anything that causes you to freakin hack up a lung when you inhale it can't be good for you.

Maybe not, but nobody is holding a gun to we smokers heads and forcing us to smoke any more than someone forced that moron who sued McDonald's to eat like 10 Big Mac's a day. He lost.

Thank God for our legal system. I can't see how this case won't be overturned on appeal.

[AlfredB1979]

My grandmother died from Emphysema.

Granted, she said she knew what she was doing, but I was ignorant for NOT throwing "spit" (a lawsuit) up on the wall and hoping it may stick.

I lost there.

[afoigrokerkok]

This is insane. Insane.

These types of lawsuits should not be allowed.

[HappyTexan]

And this is what drives insurance rates higher..indirectly of course.

[parfleche]

to bad she couldn't hang in there a little longer obamacare would have saved her

[LML]

I'm an old lady who has smoked for 50 years. I have told my family that when it finally kills me I will come back and haunt them if they ever try to sue some company about it. It is my own stupid decision and I take full responsibility for that decision....as I have for every other decision I have made.

[ThomasTR]

She died in her seventies... many non-smokers don't live that long. this is so stupid.