Has Responsibility Gone 'Out The Window'?
August 4, 2000

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I thought I had heard it all until today! Never under estimate the public! There is always a new topic coming up in the 'sue them now' column, believe me. The email I got today, with the newest topic, almost floored me, along with my friends.

For someone who has never smoked, I've always thought it was ludicrous for smokers or family of smokers to sue the tobacco companies because of diseased lungs or deaths due to cigarettes. After all, we are supposed to be responsible people, and read labels - the cigarette pack carries a warning label, as does thousands of other products. Yet, the tobacco companies have been sued successfully, getting money for their patrons. Another crazy, but money making case for one woman, was the case with a fast food restaurant, where a woman CHOSE to get hot coffee at the driveup window, placing it in her seat, and subsequently got burned. But, the judge found it to be negligence on the part of the restaurant. When are we, as a human race, going to wise up? When are we going to learn there ARE consequences to the choices we make?

Today, I got an email, declaring that a very popular chocolate company was responsible for obesity in people who ate chocolate! How many people have had to have their hands held in order to eat a candy bar? How many of us have been forced to buy one? Do we, as people, not have a responsibility to our own bodies, to eat sensibly, and not to put things in our mouths that will be harmful to our health? Are we not responsible for our OWN actions anymore?

Hershey's Ordered to Pay Obese Americans $135 million
I do realize this article isn't true.

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