# Guy sues fast food restaurants for making him fat and unhealthy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 25, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787 "2002-07-25T16:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787/181 "2003-09-05T15:31:51Z")

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Yeah what’s up with this thing called “common sense” having a place in our courts?

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**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787/182 "2003-09-05T15:31:51Z")

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Yeah what’s up with this thing called “common sense” having a place in our courts?

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**Author:** ![musicguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787/183 "2003-09-05T16:49:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Fred \*  
> \*\* Americans do _not_ have the ability to choose unsafe products if they so desire. \*\*

You mean like tobacco and alcohol?

Speaking of which, people sue the tobacco companies due to health problems when they are engaging in a legal, yet harmful, activity. And in most cases, they are perfectly aware of the dangers beforehand.

While this lawsuit is ridiculous, how different is it from a person claiming that they didn’t know that cigarettes will give you heart disease?

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**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-sues-fast-food-restaurants-for-making-him-fat-and-unhealthy/120787/184 "2003-09-05T17:35:15Z")

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> While this lawsuit is ridiculous, how different is it from a person claiming that they didn’t know that cigarettes will give you heart disease?

It’s not different, but those suits were fucking lame too.

I should say, that there was a difference in the cig cases. The majors difference was that outsiders had gotten a hold of internal memos that stated exactly the opposite of what they said publicly regarding the addiction and dangers of smoking cigarettes.

Still fucking dumb though. I’m a smoker. I understand that if I don’t quit smoking that it will kill me. Where’s the lawsuit?

Sam

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