Need a light?
"Tobacco maker finds profits abroad
It’s a company confronted by bans, social stigma, disease, and declining demand. Still, Philip Morris International Inc. says higher sales in new markets, higher prices, and a weak dollar combined to boost its fourth-quarter profit 5 percent to $1.5 billion, or 80 cents per share.
Yeah, the WEAK DOLLAR sucks for YOU, American -- but it's good for the cancer-stick killers (not that I want my freedom or liberty taken away; just say no, kids).
And KEEP SUCKING on those PROFIT-MAKING CANCER TUBES, world -- and woe to any government who refuses our cigarette imports!
Sanctions ahead!!!!
Feeling like I need a smoke.
Revenue spiked 10 percent, to $6.72 billion. The results capped a difficult year, though: Profit fell 8 percent to $6.34 billion.
Oh, the POOR, POOR, KILLERS over at Philip Morris.
HOW DID YOU DO this year, American?
Did you manage to hold on to the job and home?
I guess the anti-smoking lobby and their stinky mouthpiece didn't like that judging by the front-page fanfare:
"Suit over secondhand smoke targets real estate broker" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | February 9, 2010
One of the first lawsuits of its kind to go to trial in Massachusetts....
What is with our stirring-up-trouble state, 'eh, Massachusetts? Why do we have to be first in fascism and same-sex marriage and last in everything else?
It could encourage similar litigation and open a new front in the battle over secondhand smoke....
Just what this nation needs: MORE DIVISION!
Sigh!
Oh, sorry to exhale my smoke in your face, s***ter.
--more--"Think of it as her gift to the country, readers.
Related: Massachusetts Finally Has a Good Idea
Yeah, that was a better idea you no longer hear about.
Then to a brief?
"Trial to open in secondhand smoke case
Lawyers for a Boston woman and the real estate broker whom she sued over secondhand smoke wafting into her South End condominium are scheduled to deliver opening statements today as the trial starts in Suffolk Superior Court.
I got something else wafting over your way, lady!
I'm sure you would rather the pot smoke.
Attorneys for Alyssa Burrage, a 32-year-old advertising company employee with a history of asthma, and for Joseph DeAngelo, a broker for Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, are expected to address the jury about 9 a.m. (AP)."
Funny how that trial didn't get the same level of interest as anopther notorious case, huh?
"Jurors outraged by psychiatrist’s conduct; Felt she should share culpability in toddler’s death" by Patricia Wen, Globe Staff | February 11, 2010
BROCKTON - The jury that convicted a South Shore woman this week of killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of psychotropic drugs was also outraged by the conduct of the child’s psychiatrist and hoped the doctor would be held responsible in some way for the girl’s death, according to several jurors interviewed a day after the verdict.
“Every one of us was very angry,’’ said one juror, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation for her role in Tuesday’s second-degree murder conviction of Carolyn Riley. “Dr. Kifuji should be sitting in the defendant’s chair, too.’’
Another juror said that while the 12-member panel found that the 35-year-old mother was primarily responsible for Rebecca’s death, many jurors were “off the wall’’ when they heard the testimony of Dr. Kayoko Kifuji of Tufts Medical Center. She said they were struck by how quickly Kifuji diagnosed Rebecca with bipolar and hyperactivity disorders, as well as how little the doctor seemed to supervise the mother’s dispensing of medications.
“It blew me away,’’ said that juror, who asked to remain unidentified for fear of reprisals.
Rebecca’s psychiatrist was the focus of some of the most powerful reactions from the jurors after a three-week trial that left them emotionally and physically exhausted....
Me, too.
The whole case sickens me.
The psychiatrist will not face criminal prosecution. A grand jury last summer declined to indict her, and Kifuji testified in Carolyn Riley’s trial only after being granted immunity from prosecution.
With her Boston attorney, Bruce Singal, at her side in court, Kifuji had initially declined to testify by invoking her right against self-incrimination. That move forced the government to grant her immunity as the only way to compel her to testify....
Several jurors in the mother’s trial said they never questioned whether Carolyn Riley was culpable, and an acquittal was never a possibility....
The jurors said that during the 19 hours of deliberations behind closed doors, many wept while looking at photos of the girl’s body on the floor next to her parents’ bed....
Related: The End of Riley
I hope that last article was the epilogue (I don't think I'll cover the father's trial).
