Should smokers bear the responsibility for the health risks of cigarette smoking?
I believe that smokers should bear the responsibility of the health risks of cigarette smoking. This subject needs to be split up into two different eras. First, we have the cigarette smokers of long ago. They did not really know the health risks of cigarette smoking and they really can’t be expected to be responsible for risks that they did not know. I am referring to smokers who got cancer from cigarettes and then found out in the 90s that cigarettes cause cancer. These people really did not know what they were getting into when they began smoking and did so for decades. They deserve compensation from the tobacco companies who withheld information and, even if the companies did not know, they should still be responsible for compensating smokers whose health was damaged by their product. In this case, I believe that the tobacco companies bear the sole responsibility of causing cancer in thousands of people. These smokers are innocent. Secondly, we have the modern smokers. They know ab
