Ontario sues Big Tobacco: awesome!
I just have to point out how totally awesome it is that Ontario is suing Big Tobacco for $50 billion dollars. In doing so, the province joins British Columbia and New Brunswick, who have also taken action to recover the billions in taxpayers’ dollars spent caring for those who became sick, and often died, from smoking.
Big Tobacco has known for decades that their product kills, but continued to push cigarettes onto the public. The profit from selling poison to the population was privatized, yet the health care costs have been socialized, with the state footing the medical bills. Let these suits serve to warn Big Everything Else that the “good old days” of lining corporate pockets at the expense of the public and the state are numbered.
Scridb filter
Time for a move on cell telephony.
We’ll see. They’ve known, however they might claim to the contrary or have been looking “responsibly” in a different direction with paid-for research, since the 70s about danger, more so from the 90s, but rammed ahead anyway, and co-opted in Canada Health Canada & Industry Canada, at least mentally or by threat and, who knows, maybe materially. At current UK conference, UK brain tumour registrar projects around 10% Irish pop. with brain tumours in near future! Here you have it, “big tobacco” all over again, only much bigger, and worse for learning evasive tactics from the tobacco experience. See at length
http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/930/2009-07-23/eu &
http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/930/2009-07-16/it-takes-green-dangers-wireless &
http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/930/2009-07-22/bioinitiative
How about Small Tobacco, the cigarettes sold cheapy, illegally, and to children from various “Indian” smoke shops and such?
(They also don’t have any healh warnings on their ziplock packaging).
When it comes to poisoning or cheating the public, small can be just as bad as big.
(Most of the underground economy – cash based, no GST, no income tax, no Worker’s Comp, no EI, etc. – is small companies or actors.)
As you can see, I’m not a fan of disliking something just because it is “Big”. Bigness often stems from success in meeting a want or need, after all.
Sad part about tobacco-talk is that so many factors rendering it dangerous need not be. Tabasquero-types in S.A. use it in purity & unbelievable strength & don’t suffer. Not something I recommend, other than to direct awareness to neglected central factors, like dietary background, detrimental switch in agricultural practice, product-adulteration, general overdependency on nightshades indicative of detachment from some basic earth-bound sensibilities, great special value of tobacco & other nightshades if applied/used judiciously, &c. Notwithstanding all that, only “big” can plan & get away with the scale of what they’ve done, diversifying investment from ill-begotten gains so Ont. can even go after them now (to be possibly emulated by cell phone giants) — yes, too big is dangerous in its own right. “Small is beautiful” can often be better put “Small is less ugly”, the “green” question of scale remains. Only “bigness” can dupe a populace in a concerted way as they have, meeting a publicity-generated “need”. There is a difference.
Good to see Erich Jacoby-Hawkins is still alive.
FraudsterSpinner that he is.Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated. Your character assassin owes you a refund. (As does whoever nicknamed you “Silent” – or “Majority”).
That was good. Witty amongst other attributes.