LoneLaugher
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they are killers............................
Not in my opinion. What consenting adults choose to do with their own bodies should not be anyone else's business. Just as importantly, no one should be made to pay for other's choices. Smoke 'em if you like, but pay for your own damn healthcare.
Should cigarettes be made illegal??
No.
They should however be taxed with the health-care bill they generate in mind.
Same thing with weed.
Should cigarettes be made illegal??
No.
They should however be taxed with the health-care bill they generate in mind.
Same thing with weed.
I have a hard time finding the logic in the constant tax-raising on cigarettes.
Then the price gets so high that people quit and there goes the expected revenue.
No.
They should however be taxed with the health-care bill they generate in mind.
Same thing with weed.
I have a hard time finding the logic in the constant tax-raising on cigarettes.
Then the price gets so high that people quit and there goes the expected revenue.
The addiction is too powerful for people to quit just because the price went up.
they are killers............................
Not in my opinion. What consenting adults choose to do with their own bodies should not be anyone else's business. Just as importantly, no one should be made to pay for other's choices. Smoke 'em if you like, but pay for your own damn healthcare.
Same theory applies to contraception... and welfare moms.... and drug addicts.....
Should cigarettes be made illegal??
No.
They should however be taxed with the health-care bill they generate in mind.
Same thing with weed.
I have a hard time finding the logic in the constant tax-raising on cigarettes.
Then the price gets so high that people quit and there goes the expected revenue.
they are killers............................
but then who will pay for childrens' health care programs.....? smokers deserve a medal....
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I think cigarette smokers deserve a medal. They're single-handedly taking all this abuse. They're being forced outside to all of the extremes of weather to engage in their addiction, their habit. Furthermore, they are funding children's health care programs, and yet they are targeted as the absolute most despicable people in our culture. But without them and their purchases of tobacco products there wouldn't be the money to fund children's health care programs, and I don't care how that makes you feel, that is an irrefutable reality.
Smokers Deserve a Medal for Funding Health Care Programs for Kids, Not Government Persecution - The Rush Limbaugh Show
Should cigarettes be made illegal??
No.
They should however be taxed with the health-care bill they generate in mind.
Same thing with weed.
Alcohol is deadly too.they are killers............................
With a simulation model, lifetime health-care costs were estimated for a cohort of obese people aged 20 y at baseline. To assess the impact of obesity, comparisons were made with similar cohorts of smokers and healthy-living persons (defined as nonsmokers with a body mass index between 18.5 and 25). Except for relative risk values, all input parameters of the simulation model were based on data from The Netherlands. In sensitivity analyses the effects of epidemiologic parameters and cost definitions were assessed. Until age 56 y, annual health expenditure was highest for obese people. At older ages, smokers incurred higher costs. Because of differences in life expectancy, however, lifetime health expenditure was highest among healthy-living people and lowest for smokers. Obese individuals held an intermediate position. Alternative values of epidemiologic parameters and cost definitions did not alter these conclusions.
Conclusions
Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.
No, if people want to poison themselves they should be free to do so.
EXACTLY and if they can't afford the fun and decide to steal to pay for it. Trayvon the motherfuckers.Absolutely not... The war on drugs should be ended as well. The black market, the gangs and the violence related to it is all created by the government tamping down on our individual freedom to consume substances. Sorry, if somebody wants to smoke dope, do cocaine, drink whiskey, smoke cigarrette's or whatever, it's their body, let 'em do it.
No, if people want to poison themselves they should be free to do so.
NO! Let life and times, happen. It's better than living under big government control. Nothing will ever be perfect. People live and people die. Our behavior usually dictates our consequences. Long may we be free to choose....