</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rock Lee @ Feb 21 2004, 07:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I don&#39;t much care for your generalization about americans i take it as flaming, and that the quickest route to finding yourself banned. The american court systems allow you to bring up charges but most of the cases you&#39;ve cited are either A. in the case of cigarettes company misrepresented by your statement or B. Some random frivilous lawsuit that was thrown out of the courts.

The original person to sue the Big tobacco companies had been smoking quite a lot, and during the time when those same companies had pushed movie stars and others to start smoking during the black and white era of television. They were not informed that the cigarettes were bad. They just saw them as a social habit. At the time there was little knowledge of cancer or carcinegeans. Where as now people are suing for damage done then. Do some research before you post some random tidbit of information that you heard somewhere.

The other Mcdonalds stuff is BS, but most people can throw a lawsuit at a big company and the company will settle out of court to avoid bad press which hurts them alot more than some meager few thousand dollars they throw at said person to quiet them.

Heres an article i find damn funny.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4096586 </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
okey then no more flaming americans..

but i dont ifnd that whale article funny, no matter how i look at it it isnt funny.