Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy?

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I responded to another topic a few minutes ago that started me thinking about something. People try to blame the cigarette companies for the ill effects smoking is causing, but the companies are not to blame. They put a warning right there on the packages that tells you it could kill you, yet people buy them every day. It is simple economics for the companies...the law of supply and demand. Customers demand the cigarettes, so the companies supply them. If people stopped buying, the companies would go out of business. It is that simple. I laugh when I hear of someone taking a cigarette company to court because that person has cancer, or because that person has had a relative to die of smoking related illness. I shake my head and laugh even louder when I hear that the judge has given these people a settlement in cases like this. Everyone knows that smoking is addictive, and that it can kill you, as well as other people around you, yet they still do it every day. Then their relatives sue companies like Phillip-Morris...and the companies have to pay millions to the families??? Would you punish a grocery store if half the people shopping there were fat??? Apparently, some people have sued McDonald's for this very thing. The bottom line is this...if you don't want to get smoking related illnesses, DON'T SMOKE. If you love your children and other family members, don't do it around them either, because it could cause them to get the same illnesses, even though they may not actually smoke themselves. When you smoke around them, they smoke too, whether they are actually holding a cigarette or not. If you don't want to get fat, don't go to McDonald's, or at least don't go as often. When you do go, order wisely. If you do get cancer or emphysema, or if you do end up weighing 400 pounds, don't go get a lawyer and sue a cigarette company or McDonald's (or some other restaurant chain), because it is your own fault. You were stupid enough to smoke, or to go out to eat and pig out all the time, so you can't blame anyone but yourself. If you get sick from second-hand smoke, blame your family members who chain-smoked around you for years when you were a kid, not the companies who make the product. Take your medicine. Take some responsibility for your own actions and your own problems. I smoked for over ten years, so I can't blame anyone but myself if I die of some illness it may cause, even though I have not smoked in almost three years. I am to blame, because I did it to myself. You are to blame, because you did it to yourself...Marlboro didn't do it to you...