Inmates suing liquor and wine companies for their addiction
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A A A +  By Mac King  BOISE, Idaho (KIVI/CNN) - Five Idaho
inmates are blaming alcohol for the crimes that put them behind
bars, and they are suing some of the nation's top liquor and
wine companies.  Five Idaho inmates want $1 billion from eight
of the largest beer, wine, and liquor companies in the world.
All say they knew nothing of the addictiveness of alcohol when
they started drinking as juveniles.  If the defendants had
warning labels on their products, one wrote in his affidavit, he
would not have drank the product.  The five inmates blame booze
for a range of crimes including manslaughter, grand theft, and
drug convictions.  "If I was not an alcoholic," wrote one of the
inmates, "the shooting never would have happened."  "I think for
everyone it's axiomatic that alcohol is something that is
something that is addictive and it's something that lowers your
inhibitions," said attor