Smoking Is In the News Again.... Massive Damages, and a Fatwa....

In the first story, a Court has handed down an $80 million judgment in a smoking case,
leaving me wondering how tobacco companies afford the damages they are being ordered to
pay?

https://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/02/tobacco.oregon.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

In the second story, a religion may outlaw smoking:

https://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18026173-23109,00.html

interesting, they do give warnings on the packets now. so obviously that didn't help them.
as for affording the payouts, prices will go up and third world countries will get more and more cigarettes to keep the profits coming in.

here's a video if you have high speed internet. last friday, the state of california classified second-hand smoke as a toxic air pollutant! first state here to do taht, i dunno who else in the world has. i wonder what this is gonna mean!

video

yeh but think of how many smokers there are in the world.. and the chances are that the company they were suing were one of the big playas ie phillip morris, brittish american tabacco ect... and we all know how expensive smokes are... but then how much to these companys make??? with all the government tax on them and all