Maybe I'm a soft touch. The fact is, the goons in this story don't work for Big Tobacco. Millions of individuals smoke. Many get sick.
Some sickness has a statistical connection with smoking.
But decent people realize that they were the ones who made all the decisions in that chain of events. They aren't out to steal obscene piles of loot from whatever prey the current trendy set of idiotic beliefs will let them transfer the blame to. Next, a gaggle of dolts even dumber than the mewling plaintiffs was laboriously selected to lend credibility to a predetermined series of events. Atilla the Hun himself would swoon. But don't think ill of your fellow human beings, dear reader.