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Doug Craigen wrote in message <3AABEA44.9E54AA46@escape.ca>...
>No objection to much of the list, but two items stand out:
>
>"G. B." wrote:
>>
>> If a woman burns her thighs on the hot coffee she was holding in her lap
>> while driving, the restaurant is to blame.
>
>In the case in question, the blame was for selling coffee hotter than
>their own guidelines recognized as safe.  If she had bought the coffee
>anywhere else she wouldn't have gotten such serious burns when it
>spilt.  There's the question of reasonable expectations about the
>products you buy, and most of us have spilt coffee on ourselves before
>without requiring a doctor's attention.  Had she known how dangerous the
>cup she was holding was, she might have taken better precautions against
>spilling.
>
>> If you suck three packs of cigarette smoke into your lungs each day for
40
>> years and die of lung cancer, the tobacco company is to blame.
>
>They're not to blame for people choosing to smoke, just for denying the
>medical facts.  A person who smoked knowing it was bad for them can
>hardly blame the cigarette companies.  A person who kept smoking because
>they believed the tobacco companies is stupid, but in that case it is
>the tobacco companies fault.  If you assure somebody that a product is
>safe, you are assuming responsibility for their safety.  If you're not
>sure a product is safe, don't claim it is.  In this case it is the
>cigarette companies you should be railing against for trying to avoid
>their share of the blame.

You are forgetting that we are entitled to our own opinions in this country,
no matter who says its not a fact. Research studies are not the final word
to everyone who reads them. If ten studies say that cellphones don't cause
cancer, and they were all funded by cellphone companies, you still have a
right to disagree.  The tobacco companies were technically correct in saying
that it has never been proven that smoking causes cancer, but they were
crucified for saying it.  What really should have happened is that people
should be shown all the evidence and then make their own decisions whether
they want to kill a hundred thousand lung cells with every puff on a
cigarette.