Commonsense consumption laws
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Twenty American states have these laws and more have them in process. Fast food chain jingles aren’t so hypnotic that people can’t shift the blame for eating themselves into obesity onto anyone other than themselves.
Although plaintiffs’ lawyers are confident there are ways around the new state laws, the measures, along with a class-action overhaul bill President Bush signed into law this year, will probably make it harder for lawyers in obesity cases to win the kind of large awards seen in tobacco cases.
The Food Industry Empire Strikes Back