
Originally Posted by
donttread
They are trying to copy the MSA and other lawsuits/settlements against big tobacco. There was, however, real, definable loss for the states in the case of tobacco and real deceit in those cases. For example, as late as 1998 a tobacco exec claimed in a congressional hearing that there was no proof nicotine was addictive. More importantly they designed cigarettes to make them even more addictive. Big oil is a lot of things, but they did not design gasoline to be more destructive.