Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on July 20, 2014, 13:18:44 PM

Title: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: Highlander on July 20, 2014, 13:18:44 PM

A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer.

She claimed the tobacco company were negligent in not informing her husband of the dangers of smoking.

Title: Re: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: stoop on July 20, 2014, 13:27:10 PM

£13billion! What was he an astronaut?

Title: Re: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: GordonA on July 20, 2014, 20:20:08 PM

I would award absolutely Hee- Haw !!!! ( Scots rhyming slang !! )   >:( >:( >:( >:(

Title: Re: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: Scunner on July 20, 2014, 20:33:26 PM

What's it got to do with the wife or husband? It was the court who made the award!

Title: Re: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: stoop on July 20, 2014, 23:55:11 PM

Did she mean they should have written to him or phoned him personally to warn him?

Not read the story so it could be he smoked before the dangers were known. If not then he must have been blind and deaf.

Title: Re: Which planet has this lady's husband been living on ?
Post by: cef on July 21, 2014, 00:37:06 AM

If the proposed 'TTIP' Trade Agreement between Europe & the USA goes ahead....!  This action will be the first of many that Tax payers will ultimately be paying for!