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Smoking rate 40% 'among the nation's less-educated people'...
WTF? Am I wrong?
Tobacco taxes discriminate against the poor. Eliminate them. They pay their own way by kicking off earlier than the rest of us. I’m 60. If I take up smoking it will take 20+ years to catch up with me. Besides, tobacco is the one pleasure they can afford(expensive vacations-not). Problem solved.
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Smokers are stupid.
I’ve definitely noticed this, driving around the poorer areas of my neck of the woods.
I suppose maybe wealthier people smoke in their houses.
Historically, a huge improvement in governance followed the spread of tobacco use around the world.
Back then, it’s health defects didn’t matter since death came so early.
Would like to see tobacco required to be used by those 20 to 40...
The decrease in smoking has been one of the most dramatic changes in our culture over the last 20-30 years.
My best observation has been my being on a college campus on a regular basis for 30 years. Twenty years ago I would say that 40-50% of the students were at least social smokers. Today, I doubt that number is even at 10%.
Never smoked cigs...killed my dad, but I do enjoy the once a week cigar.
In Hawaii, I can tell you from years of carefully observing, that WELFARE RECIPIENTS ONLY smoke.
well, if you believe these “studies,” it could be concluded that smokers elected Trump.
This is my unscientific observation as someone who smoked for 30 years and quit cold turkey in 2015 --the year that more Americans than ever quit smoking.
Smoking in America today is almost entirely the habit of the lower class and they are the ones paying $6 for a pack of cigarettes.
I just wish I still smoked, that’s all I have to say on this topic. I stopped because my bossy daughter made me, also I couldn’t afford it. But I hate not smoking. So there.
So why do Democrats who claim to support they poor taxing the crap out of tobacco? Don’t they know they’re only hurting the poor?
Fake news. Watch for we need to raise more cig taxes or fund more programs for da poor with taxpayer money.
Full disclosure — I am NOT a smoker. I’ve had patients who could not afford food, or decent housing, but by golly they had cigarettes and would not even consider quitting.
I was a 40 year smoker i started VAPING dont even use nicotine there are millions who quit smoking for vaping now the government looks to regulate it to like smoking but its non addictive because there’s absolutely nothing in it wit 0 nicotine you end up with water vapor !
Clearly the government must remedy this unfair situation by compelling the rich to resume smoking.
Back in the eighties, I worked for a media advertising company. The staff was educated and well-paid.
However, the company's activities on behalf of clients led to a need for a customer phone call-in center. This was duly created as a big room outfitted with workstations for the (mostly overweight and mostly female) staff. Naturally, they were paid far less than the company's permanent workforce.
What I noticed, walking thru the call center after hours was, it positively stank of smoke and cheap perfume! In complete contrast to the rest of the premises.
A few years later, smoking indoors was banned.
Here the local store has dollar packs of cigarettes for poor people. I smoke cigars...quit smoking after high school.
It doesn’t make sense. I will say that you have a hell of a time finding anyone on govt assistance that doesn’t smoke. I always find it amusing that poor people have the $$ to spend $5 or $6 a pack for smokes, and you also never see them drink cheap beer.
Yes. You aren't reading the stats correctly. In total, 15% of all Americans smoke. For people who only have a high school GED or less, about 40% of all these people smoke. For people with graduate degrees, only about 3% smoke. The smoking rate correlate in between with the more educated smoking less.
This trend pretty much agrees with all anecdotal observations on this thread.