Honestly.... It is amazing what people resort to. You all chose to smoke and now you want money because of the fact that your light cigarettes weren't what you thought they were. It's all in the filter... not the tobacco. Just so sad. The cigarette company didn't force you to smoke. I smoked for over 20 years and would never attack the company that made the cigarettes that I enjoyed to smoke.

What the hell is a "light" cigarette? One with fewer calories than a regular one?

gold diggers. I went to natural tobacco, and found how great grandpas smoking thier whole life unfiltered made it to their 90s. I hate smoking, but do have an unusual problem. non-natural is the killer, it is indeed the companies. Why don't we all sue?

exactly, lets all sue

I can't believe they are wasting the courts time on this crap. I have smoked for 35 years and knew even before I started that it was not healthy. I admit I did it because my friends did. NO one held a gun to my head and told me to start smoking. I have never felt 'hoodwinked' by the cigarette companies. What a lame way to try and make a few bucks and waste taxpayers money by tying up the court.

What kind of a moron does not know that smoking any kind of cigarette is not good for you. I am 49 years old and have known this since I was in the 1st grade. These cases are all about greed.....lawyers and clients (who should be held responsible for bad life decisions)are out for the easy money. I have very little sympathy for some fool that has smoked for 25 years , and know thinks it is someone else s fault.

Tort reform?////

Too bad, over weight people, drunks, druggies, gays, bad dr.'s, lawyers, criminials, gamblers and politicans just don't see the light, No one made them do anything. Time to shut up.

I have never smoked. I don't allow smoking in my home. They started smoking. I did not. Yet I think it rude when they blow smoke in my face.I 'member when ye smoked every where in this nation. Ye smoke yer cigerettes outdoors. Nobody forced them to smoke in the first place. Yet years ago kids stared smoking as they had this idea it made them look cool and or grown up. Not true in my book.For health reasons smokers are told where they can smoke. I hate 2rd hand smoke. Yet they never deal with that. I have to go out. My late Uncle and I talked about smoking. He told me to never start. I was a kid then. With all the in the know out there today about smoking and what not -they still smoke even tho it is bad for the body. I hate greed. The fact is the cigerette makers put the cigs out there. I looked up what goes into cigerettes and I am appalled. Nobody is telling ye to buy them.There are alot of issues that waste the courts time . I am just a layperson. I 'member in 74 when a pack of cigs was 50 cents. Now if they would ban them drinking ads from TV like they did in1970. I member the old cig ads on TV. As legally blind person I could see what their aim was to get as many smoking as they could. Some took up smoking to rebel againt Mum/Dad. Same with drinking. I have never drank. Common sense tells us to use our heads. If the people win the lawsuit and the money can't undo the damage the smokers caused to their bodies. Yet it is unfair that us non smokers are forced to walk thru the smokers cig smoke when we had to go out.This a problem nation wide we the people have fromed smokers to take it out doors. I am 55. Every one has a right to their say. My late Dad used to smoke and he was forced to quit ifor health reasons. My room mate was forced to quit cold turkey as heath issue are the reason. Some smokers start as children. With Vince it was his grandfather that put the cig in his mouth when he was 8. Vince has told me that wished he never smoked. Women smoke thinking they will not gain wt. Not true. I have seen what smoking does to the body. IWoman who smoke look older than they are. Pitiful.My friend has COPD,heart problems,diabetes.Smoking helpped caused them. Late Dad's parents smoked and crewed. My late grand parents.

I have never smoked. I don't allow smoking in my home. They started smoking. I did not. Yet I think it rude when they blow smoke in my face.I 'member when ye smoked every where in this nation. Ye smoke yer cigerettes outdoors. Nobody forced them to smoke in the first place. Yet years ago kids stared smoking as they had this idea it made them look cool and or grown up. Not true in my book.For health reasons smokers are told where they can smoke. I hate 2rd hand smoke. Yet they never deal with that. I have to go out. My late Uncle and I talked about smoking. He told me to never start. I was a kid then. With all the in the know out there today about smoking and what not -they still smoke even tho it is bad for the body. I hate greed. The fact is the cigerette makers put the cigs out there. I looked up what goes into cigerettes and I am appalled. Nobody is telling ye to buy them.There are alot of issues that waste the courts time . I am just a layperson. I 'member in 74 when a pack of cigs was 50 cents. Now if they would ban them drinking ads from TV like they did in1970. I member the old cig ads on TV. As legally blind person I could see what their aim was to get as many smoking as they could. Some took up smoking to rebel againt Mum/Dad. Same with drinking. I have never drank. Common sense tells us to use our heads. If the people win the lawsuit and the money can't undo the damage the smokers caused to their bodies. Yet it is unfair that us non smokers are forced to walk thru the smokers cig smoke when we had to go out.This a problem nation wide we the people have fromed smokers to take it out doors. I am 55. Every one has a right to their say. My late Dad used to smoke and he was forced to quit ifor health reasons. My room mate was forced to quit cold turkey as heath issue are the reason. Some smokers start as children. With Vince it was his grandfather that put the cig in his mouth when he was 8. Vince has told me that wished he never smoked. Women smoke thinking they will not gain wt. Not true. I have seen what smoking does to the body. IWoman who smoke look older than they are. Pitiful.My friend has COPD,heart problems,diabetes.Smoking helpped caused them. Late Dad's parents smoked and crewed. My late grand parents.

It does make one wonder at the reasoning for this lawsuit. I mean really people! Didn't we all pretty much know that lighting a leafy chemical laiden stick on fire and inhailing the smoke into out raw fleshy lungs wasn't GOOD for us??? I mean it doesn't take much to know that??? But what I really want to know is....where are all the lawsuits on alcohol comapanies?? I mean shouldnt we be taking blood tests of all the people that kill or injure people driving drunk, and determining what alcohol they drank and suing them for helping to enable us to kill someone?? ha! THINK PEOPLE!!! It's all about choices!

I smoked for 45 years and one day i decided to quit not blame anyone or believe another party was to blame for my stupid decisions. Lokks to me like someone looking for some free money.

The usual humorless just-say-no puritans aside, my oh my, don't we have a lot of people with Stockholm Syndrome writing posts here today. These are tough folk who knew exactly what they were getting into when they first lit up and today would damn anyone who would want to help the tens of millions of nicotine-heads like themselves who must inevitably become mortally ill as a consequence of this terrible addiction. They're outraged at the sin of greed they claim to believe motivates those who would infringe on the free-ranging operations of their much adored drug dealer -- in this case, The Altria Corp. (aka Phillip Morris). Their overriding moral concern seems somewhat misplaced but how very noble of them.

no forced.......just additives to ADDICT you...... where do we sign up for this case??? lots more of us active people need retrubution as well.....

I’m sorry but it is wrong to sue for some self inflicted health issues people have after smoking or death for that matter. I am 46 and as far back as I can remember we were told smoking cigarettes was bad for our health. I saw the posters in the subways while growing up in NYC, saw them in the city buses as well and I do recall the warnings as well on the bottom of the ad, yes it was fine print but it was still readable. We lives in times that are hard on everyone financially and this seems to be an easy way out. Wake up folks these law suits could take days, weeks, months and or years. Get out and get a job if you need money that bad. My dad passed away 5 months ago from Emphysema and end stage C.O.P.D. all because he chose to smoke since he was 15. He worked in 2 hospitals in NYC and over the course of 20 plus years got to know many physicians and I’m sure they told him smoking was no good for his health. Like I said before about the posters/banners in the buses, subways and even through the media (newspapers, magazines, and t.v.) all those other forms of print ads showed at the bottom of the ad about the dangers of smoking. But he chose to ignore them like 99% of smokers do. Mom or anyone of his 8 children could sue, but for what? Will it bring back my dad, my hero. No not at all, on one of the last visits I had just days before my dad’s passing, he said to me, Kerry tell Sean to stop smoking. I told my son just that, he went to his grampy’s funeral but he still chooses to smoke. I pray he will wake up before it’s too late for him too. No one put a gun to my dad’s head nor my sons for that matter and told them they had to smoke. The baby of our family smoked but when she learned she was pregnant she gave up the smoking, but within a matter of time she went back to smoking. She talked with her doctor and she quit cold turkey. What was the point in having a baby if she wasn’t going to be there to see him grow up. She now has 2 children and it’s been 5 years since she quit and I applaud her. I think seeing my dad’s health decline as he aged was enough of a wake up call for her. I tried smoking not once but twice when I was about 12, the coughing and hacking was enough for me to never do it again. When I had my children my folks babysat while their dad and I worked. I hated when I’d open the diaper bag up and it reeked like an over run ashtray. I had always kept an extra set of cleans clothes, diapers, burp clothes and etc in the bag and would have to let the bag air out and wash clothes that had never been used or worn. I dealt with that for about 2 ½ years or so, like I said I hated it. But that was my dad, he was the best dad a girl could ask for, he was loving, caring, giving and he was an awesome grampy to my children as well as the other 12. I never had the heart to say anything to dad about how much I hated the smoking and even having to grow up in it for the first 26 years of my life. So again before you go and sue step back and look in the mirror to see exactly who it is that buys those cigarettes of any kind and who it is that smokes them and you will see that it is you, yourself causing your own demise.

Kerry1963- Very touching story and so true. I had quit smoking for almost 2 years and just started up again about 4 months (very very stupid thing to do) and am in the process of trying to quit again. I started smoking when I was 19 years old because it was the "cool" thing to do, well I do not feel so "cool" now. It was my own choice to start smoking and even though I smoke light cigarettes I know that they are no better for me than regular (full flavor) cigarettes, the only reason I smoke lights is because the flavor is less intense not because they are better for me and anyone that says they were not aware of this is full of crap. I truely feel that they are just looking to get some free money and lawyers knowing that cigarette companies will usually settle out of court just to keep people quiet and they have the money to spare these people feel this is easier than getting a real honest paying job and they should be ashamed of themselves, do what the rest of us do and get a 40 hour a week JOB!!!!! Also if you choose to smoke take responsibilty for your actions and do not blame somebody else they did not hold you down and put a cigarette in your mouth and light it.... if they did then you may actually have a lawsuit but until this happens it is all your fault for smoking and no one elses, I know this and so do most smokers!

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