Each is more or less legally protected now, thanks to the presumption of self-responsibility. That presumption comes to an end if the anti-smoking forces win the tobacco war. Bast warns that every conceivable kind of business could suddenly find itself liable, retroactively, for alleged risks dreamed up by unscrupulous lawyers and their conniving clients. Litigation itself could prove hazardous to our health, and to the health of our free enterprise system. This is what we will become if we keep refusing to accept responsibility for our actions.
Life is full of risks.
The only way to avoid them all is not to get out of bed in the morning, and then you run the risk of bed sores and muscular atrophy. The ones who accept responsibility are called adults. Behind The Headlines is syndicated to newspapers and radio stations, free of charge, by America's Future, a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1946 and dedicated to the preservation of our free-enterprise system and our constitutional form of government.