Ontario is suing 50 billion dollars to recover costs of treating citizens with smoking related illnesses. The Ontario governments describes how smoking is the number one killer and not smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the province. Smoking kills on average 36 people a day! Smoking costs tax payers on average 1.6 billion dollars a year. These smoking companys are earning billions of dollars through our taxes and now we are suing these companies. We believe that the amount of money spent on trying to cure smoking related diseases is so high and its only right to try and get some of the money back through suing the tobbaco companies. The article uses statistics and discusses how many people are killed or hurt through smoking. It think it's time we take a stand and sue the tabbacco companies.
Personally, I think its absolute ridiculous that we have to pay for other peoples nasty habits. I think our money should be going to a better cause and that we shouldn’t have to pay these tobacco companies. I think that the money we put into taxes our taxes should be used for the roads, schools, and healthcare appose to Tobacco companies I hope Ontario wins because of how much I despise smoking in general.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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I agree with you Sean, the tax money we pay should go back into repairing the communities we live in and not to Tobacco companies. Good Job!
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