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28 Sep 2017, 4:47 pm
  West Palm Beach, FL—The cigarette addiction that led to a Florida woman’s death was fueled by ads targeting women and smokers looking for a “healthier” choice, a lawyer for the woman’s family said Wednesday, as a rare Florida trial outside the Engle progeny line of lawsuits opened against Philip Morris.Gentile v. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 4:52 am
Smokers and obese are paying more, and why not? [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 9:57 am by Crystal M. Wilson
Heavy smokers usually go for higher nicotine levels, but this could be too harsh for regular users. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 6:40 am
But as evidence continues to link unhealthy lifestyle choices to health care costs... [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 1:35 pm
Although our Boston mesothelioma attorneys have written before on the issue of asbestos litigation brought by smokers and former smokers (the cases are possible to win and a person's choice to smoke doesn't negate a manufacturer's duty to warn), one of the more prominent issues we see here is that of the every exposure theory. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 10:41 am
  Orlando, FL— Attorneys debated whether a tobacco industry conspiracy or a Florida smoker's own choices were to blame for the lung cancer that killed him at 49, as trial began this week against R.J. [read post]
9 May 2016, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
It’s not just an assault on individual choice and commercial freedom — it could wind up killing people. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 4:00 am
I have been discussing the fat smoker principles here in Australia: that we don't do what's good for us because we are unwilling to incur short-term discomfort to get even a massive long-term benefit. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 9:30 pm by Alberto Alemanno
Should their initial choices not occur in an informed way, governmental efforts will risk losing credibility vis-à-vis both current and new, potential smokers. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 8:02 am by Lawrence Solum
Some people may smoke due to failures of rationality, but for others, smoking appears to be a rational choice. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 9:30 am by Tim K. Garrett
” My take is that “employers will likely be watching closely how refusing to hire smokers pans out since there are many other lifestyle choices that affect health. [read post]
27 Jul 2013, 1:01 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In fact, it's already starting to happen.Gohmert on metadata, pot smokers and potato chipsCheck out a video of Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert railing against the NSA metadata collection program. [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 4:31 pm
This is going irk some people, but I’m gonna say it anyway: Smokers are litterers. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 4:46 pm by Thom Lambert
  As today’s Wall Street Journal reports, the point of the surcharge is to internalize the externalities smokers and snackers impose on their fellow citizens, who bear much of the cost of their unhealthful choices: “If you want to smoke, go for it,” said Monica Coury, spokeswoman for Arizona’s Medicaid program. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 4:00 am by Julie A. Fleming
Other chapters of Strategy and the Fat Smoker have application to lawyers and firms as well. [read post]
23 May 2008, 12:57 pm
If my choices are hacking, smoker’s cough and future lung cancer vs. current depression, thoughts of suicide, violent behavior, horrible nightmares and loss of motor control skills that could lead to serious or even fatal injury, I think I’d rather smoke like a chimney and hope for the best. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by Ariel Breitman
In balancing combustible cigarette and e-cigarette restrictions, regulators face a difficult choice: they can either help current smokers quit traditional cigarettes and transition instead to e-cigarettes, or they can protect a new generation from e-cigarette vaping addiction. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 10:33 am by Daniel Shaviro
  It's arguably a bad choice most of the time, if we view smokers' testimony that they want to quit as trumping the Becker-Murphy rational addiction theory. [read post]