A good-news moment

by Diane

Philip Morris loses a $10 billion verdict. …But don’t worry, guys; I’m sure the damages will be “light.”

If you gather that I think smoking is suicide — commercially-assisted suicide via an addictive substance — and that cigarette companies deserve every bit of the punishment they’re getting at the moment, then you’d be right. Peter’s dad died relatively young of complications of smoking, an event which still profoundly affects Peter: and in my early nursing days, I had to care for entirely too many people dying of lung cancer who were still resolutely smoking cigarette after cigarette through their tracheotomy stomae. The memory burns.

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