[Washington Post]Tobacco Suit Lawyers to Try Same Against Soda Mfgrs.

Ludicrous. This sort of thing makes plaintiff lawyers look bad, and the vast majority of them have nothing to do with class action suits, and work hard for their deserving clients.


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Somebody should sue these lawyers.

 

All this prOn on the internet is driving me batty!!! Who do I get to sue?

 

It's not just the soda, it's the corn (sryup) that's in everything.

 

ding! ding! ding! Cut our corn subsidies and you won't have it everywhere.

 

i'm all for it. smoking cigarettes is unhealthy but a choice made by adults. drinking sodas is nasty and unhealthy. why encourage children to have bad taste and bad health. seems like a no-brainer to me.

 

I drank sodas when I was in high school and, while I am not exactly slim at 6' and 205, I am not exactly a butterball either. In addition, I consume around a case of soda a week and have never been described as "obese."

Seems like a good time for a lawyer joke (not directed at you, Max).

Why don't sharks eat lawyers???


























Professional courtesy.

 

as studly as i'm sure you are, you'd be much better off without the empty calories. since soft drinks don't have any nutrients they block vitamins and minerals that your body could use. try weening yourself off them with other drinks, like pomegranite and seltzer, my current favorite. i bet you'd find that as you switched to putting more natural things in your body, you will eventually be disgusted with the taste and the general idea of drinking these little canned poisons.

 

Whether or not sodas are bad for you, and I think they are, as I take a sip from my Diet Coke, it's absurd to sue the companies over this. I'm all for personal freedoms, and there are more than a few under threat. I watch what my kids consume. Neither one likes soda, real or diet, and it's because we never let them have any growing up. When they are old enough to make their own choices, then they can choose to drink them, or not. I'll still give them more than my 2 cents.

The cigarette companies actively covered up just how bad cigarettes are for you, so they got what they deserved. If the soda companies are actively covering up similar info, then that's another story.



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Are sodas chemically addictive?

 

that's fine deck, i just don't mind them making them unavailable at schools. why implicitly educate children that sodas are okay?

 

Absolutely. It's really scary that the way we try to correct our wrong doings is to sue someone else. I know sodas are bad for me, but I can't help reaching for them every now and then, as for other unhealthy food, then I will just hit the gym and take vitamins to balance it out. I still have reserve about the major suits against tabacco companies, because every smoker was harmed and not all of them were compensated, especially those ones in third world countries, where those same branded cigarettes were even less filtered. This whole thing makes the suit just unreasonable at all. The government didn't force them to put up a sign about its harm back then, shouldn't they be suing the government instead? They did cover up, therefore they shared some blame, and I have reserve to those suits, not strongly against it. However, which company didn't cover up? We can only look at history events in the perspective of the history. Lots of chemical factories poluted the environment terribly according to current standard, are we going to sue all of them? Because they did affect our health, or our parents'.

People should decide for themselves what's good or bad for them. In fact, everything enjoyable in life is somehow harmful to us. We should only be drinking water and eating apples.

 

I never claimed to be "studly" (if we have a pickup game this December, my lack of studliness will be confirmed for all) and I know they are empty calories.

I don't like coffee, but I love caffeine and as such, sodas will remain in my diet.

 

i'm just ****ing with you andy. as i said in my last post, i'm really just for taking them out of schools, i don't like those litigious selachimorphas any more than you do

 

I figured you were yanking my chain, but decided to answer anyway.

 

Oh, I agree with keeping them out of schools. For sure. Kids get exposed to enough crap already. I'm raising two good, liberal Democrats. They know that sodas are bad, the President is a fool, his party is run by extremists, racism is evil, the Governor is corrupt, it was wrong to invade Iraq, France has superb food... golly, I may have forgotten something. I hope not!



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When laden with caffiene? Yes!

And the withdrawal can be just as painful as one from a narcotic according to some reports (which I'm sure you could google up). Caffiene did replace actual cocaine in early Coca-Cola, btw.

Also, most beef has 21 different hormones/chemical growth enhancers in it which is thought to be addictive.

Sue the golden arches!








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Sodas today have Bin Laden with too much caffeine.

 

I don't agree with the law suit but I do support the removal of soda and juice machines from school. Someone mentioned it earlier but ,check the content of the so called fruit juices and you might just as well be drinking MRS Butterworths pancake syrup.