Kessler wrote: "Over the course of more than 50 years, defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the American public, including smokers and the young people they avidly sought as 'replacement smokers,' about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke."
"They suppressed research, they destroyed documents, they manipulated the use of nicotine so as to increase and perpetuate addiction, they distorted the truth about low-tar and light cigarettes so as to discourage smokers from quitting, and they abused the legal system in order to achieve their goal -- to make money with little, if any, regard for individual suffering, soaring health costs, or the integrity of the legal system," Kessler wrote.
But, citing constraints imposed by a February 2005 appeals court ruling that disallowed penalties for past conduct, Kessler did not order the companies to pay for smoking-cessation programs that the Justice Department had sought.
Doing well, TY. Still teaching 5th grade- got a new position in a dynamite district. School starts Monday and I'll be teaching Math, Language, and Science. How are YOU? (I've only read about 5K of your 30,696 posts
I'm in a master's program for elem ed. I should be doing a practicum in about ayear. My job is going to part time and I am trying to find part time work in a school. Things are good.
Today was "Meet the Teacher" night. Nothing like having your own classroom- It has been fun and the kids are great.
The best thing about it is the two months off in summer. I got a new RV and we went camping & trout fishing in Ark and toured the Texas Hill Country. That's the life- Hiking, swiiming and biking everyday...
My Mentor has his doctorate in Early Childhood Education- has been teaching for over 40 years! Now he's retired but still working at a local university and Phoenix U online. Oy!
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