September 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: My father smoked for 40 years and although I’ve tried to get him to stop many times and he has on occasion but now Peripheral Arterial Disease has really got him in pain all day long, he doesn’t drive so he is very restricted, I know they have been sued for emphasima before but this is new and very common?
Its amazing to me the amount of anger and uncompassionate comments that has been received. Do you think growing up trying to get my father to stop was simply a matter of doing it. He is addicted and when he started smoking it was pushed on him. It doesn’t stop the pain seeing him suffer. Our community can’t even support those who need it. Where is the compassion in the world.
Underthesea223 you give me hope that our community still has hope for the people in it.
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Doesn’t the cigarette packet carry a warning, stating "smoking is injurious to health" and you father is a rational human being who has the ability to comprehend, right? so since it was his decision to smoke after knowing the ill effects you will probably lose if you sue!
Eloquent gave you the answer in one.
Sure you can.. buy WHY.. ??? why should some one sue because of something they knew was bad yet did it anyway .. We have known for many yeas smoking is bad. Tobacco Products should be illegal as crack .. there both killers.
in the US, you can sue anyone at anytime for anything. this does not guarantee you will win! see your attorney for legal answers.
Did he choose to smoke? Yes. Unless someone forced him to smoke for 40 years he made the decision. Could you sue butter manufacturers for causing high cholesterol and artery clogging? No…if it is something done by choice then you don’t really have much of an argument.
I am very sorry to hear about your father.
Unfortunately, you would find such a lawsuit very expensive and probably very unrewarding. Even if the case was won, the only ones who would really make money are the lawyers. You would also be confronted every day with anger and bitterness towards a company that cares far more about selling cigarettes than about your father’s life. I’m sure you have a lot of anger and fear and perhaps even guilt. Trying to sue the cigarette industry is not going to absolve you of any of this pain; in fact, it will probably only make it worse because you will have to think about it every day and use it to drive you forward.
I hate to say it, but you will also face a lot of people who will judge your father for his habit of smoking cigarettes. It’s terrible, I know. Again, I am very sorry to hear about your father’s illness.