Oh really!?! So how long have cigarettes and alcohol been around? And when did we in the US start to actually make regulations towards discloser for those industries? I'm quite sure that most of you weren't even alive. I remember when back in the 50, 60 or 70's when smoking was cool and was to some degree encourage. To top it off, I bet that you didn't even know that they used cartoons to entice younger children that smoking was cool. What, did you really think that the winston cup in nascar was named after a guy or something? No, the feds had to step in and make the tobaco industries stop advertising first on the tv...then in cartoon ads...then magazines & billboards and finally your beloved cars/teams in racing and nascar.
I might also add that the tobaco companies purposely did not inform the general public about any of the dangers of smoking when they all knew that not only did the tar cause cancer but that the nicotine was addicting...and most distrubing that children made up a 1/3 of tobaco use.
I still see the industries kicking out the same ol product with nothing more than a small paragraph in -100 font size on the side of all places warning you of the dangers of smoking.

Does this make what ford did right? Hell no, but I don't know of an automaker that is ready to throw the first stone either!

But your right Dave...this has gotten way off topic from "anybody want to watch a ship sink"