This course of action on the part of "Big Tobacco" is nothing more than an outgrowth of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. The ironic thing is that this line of thought, will inevitably lead to an outburst of tabacco advertising.

Logically this is going to happen, when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Citizens United, we became a corporate state run by the oligarchs of the corporations. Nothing now will stem the flood tide of unethical and immoral advertising. Look for the "Winston Cup" in NASCAR to be reinstated as the primary sponsor of NASCAR.

We have become that which we greatly feared, a banana republic run by the uber-wealthy and the corporations that pay their salaries. Much like the countries of Central and South America, where the people have no voice, think Somoza regime, Chile, Peru, and all the other nations the US has propped up in their time. Amerikkka, has lost its place as a 1st world country, no longer having the status of a developed nation, we are now a debtor nation, beholden to the Chinese, Arabs and all other countries and people that hold the dollar as international currency.

If corporations are people, then, reflexively, people are corporations, but that certainly isn't always the case...

I hate to hear some lib rag on the corporatocracy too much... you know the lib I'm talking about: the lib who has an Apple Mac and iPhone; who drinks Starbucks coffee; who eats healthy Archer Daniels Midland agricultural products; who wears Gucci, Jordache, and Nike apparrel; who drives a Honda hybrid; who watches a Sony television; who shops at Wal*Mart; who coifs his hair with Vidal Sassoon; who sleeps on a Tempur-Pedic mattress; who reads the Washington Post, Salon.com, Newsweek, and the like; who owns an Amana refrigerator; who smokes R.J.Reynolds fine tobaccos; etc., etc.

I hear right now the Prez is on a bus tour in a caravan of about 40 vehicles with three Canadian buses that run $2.2M ea. Talk about smokin'! I hear Al Gore's carbon footprint is 10 times my own. I hear the same James Hansen who predicted an apocalyptic freeze is now the chief spokesman for an apocalyptic melt down... what will they pay him to say next year? I hear a lot of stuff, but it's all just so much flapdoodle.

No minimun wage! ( we have that in Texas, ask any illegal alian.) No building codes (we have building codes but they are not enforced in Texas). No rules ( we have one in Texas, the rich run over the poor). If I don`t like it here, why don`t I move. Haha. Read no rules again and guess which side Perry and I stand on. Just wait til he gets to be Pres. and we will show you what we mean when we say the rich get richer and the poor continues to snival and ring their hands and vote Republican thinking someday I might be rich and will need all these perks. Yee haw, Go R P. It looks like another good cattle drive.

I hope this will go all the way up to the US Supreme Court. I would like to see them deluge with such corporation lawsuits to see how the SCOTUS will handle the Frankenstein monster mess that they created.. Would the corporate-Friendly Chief Justice refuse to review the lawsuit brought to him by a big tobacco company?.

For God's sake, what is going on?

People pay taxes.

Corporation do not (as we see more and more!)

enough said!

Once it fails, maybe they'll shut the heck up. Heh heh.

I think we should apply capitial punishment to the "persons" who are the tobacco corporations. After all, they kill people knowingly! That is murder one!

All they have to do is get this case before the United States Supreme Court or should I say the United States Supreme Corporation Court. In a reality based world the entire tobacco industry should've been liquidated, accounts frozen, CEO's prosecuted and all of the money turned over to BIG GOVERNMENT(protecting the people) to create a fund for the people that Big Tobacco knowingly poisoned, killed and made their product more addictive in the name of profits.

This is of course is not the reality based world we live in. This is a world where industries like the Big Tobacco can bark at the government and say we shouldn’t have to label or indicate that this product is unsafe or harmful. They’ll make the argument in court that their 1st amendment right of free speech is being violated by having to inform their (victims) customers that their product is deadly.

An industry that should no longer exist has the money, influence and the Supreme Court to insure their manufactured constitutional rights will be protected. While, the intend natural constitutional rights of the people they’ve poisoned, killed and profited from their rights will not be considered in the courts of the American “Justice” System set up to protect those very people that a industry like Big Tobacco has preyed upon.

Wrong isn’t a good enough word to describe the subversion of the American “Justice” system. We must as a country find our collective conscious or we’ll be doomed to collapse under the weight of our own divisiveness. Distracted by forces of deception completely unaware of the liberty being stripped from the citizenry and granted to the institutions of wealth and power through the same system set up to protect us from tyranny.

People still buy Twinkies - but I do agree that your suggestion might deter some folks.
Any chance of you posting a source? The list sure does include a bunch of ingredients.

Thanks

Quack! Quack! Can you say "sitting duck?"

Has Mr. Thiel finally figured out that the natural sequel to "Atlas Shrugged" is "Assholes Slugged?"

Ayn Rand's so-called "philosophy" is nothing more than the hedonic delusion of a socioopath, and it is not original either. Every generation of selfish authoritarian boobs has had the same stupid, evil myth of entitlement: A. The adherent is a member of an elite group with a monopoly on brains and talent (BS); B. The adherent and the rest of this "elite" are therefore entitled - ordained! - to monopolize wealth & power (More S); and C. The "elite" are entitled to treat the rest of humanity like cattle, cheating them, exploiting them and even slaughtering them in pursuit of their just entitlements. (Piled Higher & Deeper.)

How do you spell a raspberry?

Before Ayn Rand there were the Nietzschean Ubermensch cults that fueled rightwing extremists in the years leading up to WWII. Before that, there was Social Darwinsim. Before that, George Fitzhugh - favorite philosopher of the Confederate slavemasters. Before him, Joseph de Maistre, favorite philosopher of the old feudal aristocracies in the face of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries' democracy movements. It is always the same sociopathic trash. It always leads to no good.

And it always fails in the end - goes down in flames, loses, goes kaput, Tango Utopia, reviled and repudiated.

That's probably why every generation of greedy fools has to remake this same damned trash with a new label.

So Mr. Thiel has discovered that dehumanizing other human beings is fun. And if it feels good it's gotta be true, right? No. It's a glitsch in the brain that goes back to the chimps, animals that automatically slaughter strangers of their kind.There is good evidence that thinking like this is both addictive and makes you stupid.

Maybe instead of building a desperate refuge in the ocean deep ("Tango Utopia?") Mr. Thiel can discover that Ayn Rand's philosophy isn't so hot after all? Maybe he could stop masturbating the monkey brain and learn to treat the rest of humanity with dignity and respect?

Nah.