It scares me to think that not long ago – not long at all! – doctors were recommending cigarettes on TV, and we legitimately didn’t know they killed you.
It makes me wonder, what are we doing these days that will be proven to be deadly in the future?
After the states wisely used the tobacco settlement money to provide health services to all those afflicted, cancer deaths from this scourge have been eliminated.
It’$ amazing the conclu$ion$ that people can come to with the proper inducement$, i$n’t it?? Of cour$e, Wa$hington ha$ ALWAY$ worked like that, ha$n’t it??
BE THIS GUY over 6 years ago
Look at the upside, you can be a witness at the perjury trial.
Johnny Q Premium Member over 6 years ago
Just like the “jury” is still “out” on climate change…
Rosette over 6 years ago
It scares me to think that not long ago – not long at all! – doctors were recommending cigarettes on TV, and we legitimately didn’t know they killed you.
It makes me wonder, what are we doing these days that will be proven to be deadly in the future?
rpmurray over 6 years ago
After the states wisely used the tobacco settlement money to provide health services to all those afflicted, cancer deaths from this scourge have been eliminated.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 6 years ago
When I was a little kid, my aunt “jokingly” called her cigarettes “cancer sticks.”
At the time, my mother smoked Chesterfields, and my father smoked cigars.
He quit about 1962, because he’d started to believe it really did cause cancer, and started hassling my mother to give up her cigarettes.
She found it difficult to stop, but was finally convinced, two years later, by the Surgeon General’s report…
and that was in 1964!
The jury is still out??!
Isn’t there any limitation on how long it can be sequestered?
And yeah, they’re obviously sequestered, cos they’re purposely blind to any new reports or research.
The proper verdict has been obvious for 60 or 70 years!
RPMurray… I hoping that was meant to be typed in the sarcastic font we so badly need.
Silly Season over 6 years ago
The lead in gasoline didn’t hurt you;
Asbestos only protected you;
Tobacco never caused cancer;
United Fruit Company (Chiquita bananas) never overthrew a government;
Union Carbide plant kept a safe operation in Bohpal, India.
WellPoint’s Breast Cancer Algorithm was never used to rescind insurance coverage for women with cancer Dx’s;
Wal-Mart never locked in illegal alien janitors overnight between 1998 and 2003;
Goldman Sachs never sold Investors a Doomed-to-Fail Fund (CBO’s);
Enron never manipulated energy prices;
Arthur Andersen never shredded incriminating documents pertaining to its advisory and auditing of Enron;
Now Shell Oil and Exxon never covered up that CO2 causes Climate Change.
/s
mourdac Premium Member over 6 years ago
Candy cigs. But wait, they have sugar in them.
Masterskrain over 6 years ago
It’$ amazing the conclu$ion$ that people can come to with the proper inducement$, i$n’t it?? Of cour$e, Wa$hington ha$ ALWAY$ worked like that, ha$n’t it??
johnec over 6 years ago
Will this be Mr. Jay in another 10 years?! It seems like the legalization train is full steam ahead!
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 6 years ago
It’s like dealing with Trump…
jbruins84341 over 6 years ago
Does anyone else find it odd that a figment of Mike’s imagination is now testifying before Congress?