Can people capable of putting a man on the Moon really be that stupid?

Dear Editor,

In response to the article, "Big Tobacco, in Court Again. But the Stock Is Still Up"

All the legal arguments and technicalities aside, what kind of an arsehole is it, I ask myself (please excuse my French), corporate or otherwise, who would make money selling you something that he knows will harm you?

It is the kind of arsehole that I would be ashamed and angry to call a fellow citizen.

Despite all the evidence for the harm it does, the American tobacco industry put its financial interests before the health and lives of American citizens (never mind non-Americans). It is responsible for far more American deaths than Germany and Japan combined in World War 2, yet its managers and investors wrap themselves in the American flag and rely on American troops to defend the money they have made and their freedom go on making it at everyone else's expense.