I don't keep up with the whole tobacco issue and don't really smoke much. Usually a cigar or 5 during the period right from Thanksgiving to New Years, and maybe a tin of pipe tobacco or two at that time as well. But I think the issue revolves at least partially around early industry attempts to deny the affects of smoking and then known attempts to market to the young.

If that is actually what's driving it all, I don't have a problem with the law suits. If it's not, well... The problem is it is hard for me to get excited about defending tobacco. On the other hand, the whole issue of the "Nanny State", I forget who coined that term, annoys me. Can't childproof the whole planet.