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At 09:44 AM 08/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: >I hope this doesn't give you indigestion!! > >http://www.theonion.org/onion3626/hersheys_pay_obese.html > > > > HERSHEY, PA--In one of the largest product-liability rulings in U.S. >history, the Hershey Foods Corporation was ordered by a Pennsylvania jury >Monday to pay $135 billion in restitution fees to 900,000 obese Americans >who for years consumed the company's fattening snack foods. > >Jorge I'm afraid it gives me Excedrin headache #327 Jorge, I live in the State (Florida) where smokers successfully sued the Tobacco Industry for billions. I don't understand it either. No one has forced anyone to smoke, nor to eat sweets all day long, and must be about half of the night too. Now they are fixing it so no one is responsible for their own actions!!! OOPS, I feel another headache coming on!!! > just me, Marjorie >