“...the jury seemed most persuaded by 1994 C-Span footage of tobacco industry executives claiming smoking did not cause cancer and was not addictive, and by 60-year-old internal documents showing the company knew otherwise.”
Yet many a Freeper will deny nicotine is addictive.
Adult personal choices + adult personal responsibility = government employees out of personal lives, jobs-and wallets-and trial lawyers having to actually work for a living...
Now THAT is what I call a free country...
Even as a small child in the late 40s I was aware that smoking was unhealthy.
I know of no human being, with an IQ over 50 ever claiming what you assert.
The only possible exception, is the fact that individual familial genes plays a huge role in who becomes a medical victim, and who doesn't. An area which, to this day, is neglected and ignored.
For example, last time I researched it, in the late 90s, 100% of the documented oldest living persons ---- 100% of those who lived longer than 100 years, smoked 'all their lives'; and most of them didn't 'quit' until after age 95...