An old adage has it that a lawsuit is the last thing a gentleman should turn to. The ancient Oriental society frowned upon the practice and the people who enjoyed it. Social pundits had even considered the litigation a shortcut to ruin.
People have had facelifts. They have wiped shame and disgrace off their faces. They have turned bold enough and brazen enough. Deprived of patience, going through or sometimes bypassing fault-finding and blame, they take the other party to the court who gives hazards of life to them for legal solution.
Plaintiffs have lost the so-called tobacco suit the first round. Attorneys for the plaintiffs, who might have looked forward to the fame and a big fortune, "cried foul." The cause and effect between cigarette smoking and lung cancer was viable. Why not accept the cause-effect rule, the lawyers fumed.
Judges might have desired to place the sense of individual responsibilities before anything else. They must have been wary of the aftermath of the plaintiff-friendly verdict which would prompt all the forces on the waiting list to follow suit.
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