the lack of a real distinction between conduct automatically treated as criminal and conduct seen as being, equally automatically, better dealt with by market-promoting welfare regulatory law shows up in a number of well-known harm-causing cases. although the activities in these cases are still not treated as crimes, most people would feel comfortable with a decision to hold the corporations and their managers criminally culpable. thus, in recent times, courts and juries have found tobacco corporations to be civilly liable for having caused illnesses and addictions. damages have been awarded to people who have demonstrated they suffered illnesses as a result of smoking, even though the decision to smoke was their own, and even though the tobacco corporations had presented warnings about the dangers of their product on every packet sold.
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