Bullet In My Brain or Lung Cancer?

Story: Woman's husband is a smoker (most likely starting before the warning labels were put on packs), and he smokes roughly a pack a day of Philip Morris brand cigarettes. Despite an addition of a warning label in 1966, and several revisions to that warning label in 1970 that is approved by the Surgeon General saying that smoking is hazardous, and a later revision in 1985 advising smokers to quit; this man kept on trucking. Despite the majour controversy surrounding cigarettes and their questionable contents he continued on smoking, pushing himself to the point of getting lung cancer and dying in 1996. It is now 13 years after the fact and his wife has currently won a lawsuit against Philip Morris Corp for $6.3 billion in repercussions. This is not only wrong, but hinging on the edge of pushing a company out of business. As you may or may not know, cigarette companies cannot even advertise their products anymore, that's all fine in dandy but on top of not being able to advertise they have to tell people to not use their product, very counter productive if I do say so myself.

Now, on to my next point; if cigarette companies have to pay a widow reprecussions because her husband killed himself using their product, then gun companies should have to pay the families of suicide cases, and anyone who dies of over drinking? The liquor company should toss money at that person's family. Its' just ridiculous what people can get away with sueing over simply cause it's a cigarette company.