Second, isn't pot smoked? And it's now legal in some places. Yeah, they care about "health".
Third, government is having a cow because some people still exercise freedom. Bad! Nasty! /s
It's what they want anyway.
So if it’s so awful then ban it outright...but you won’t because the government relies on the taxes to fund all their liberal social programs...
What about second-hand pot smoke?
Start with the little islamist.
Smokers urge new resolve to end Nanny General
Government is more dangerous than smoking could ever be.
A more duplicitous, nefarious group of government bureaucrats under this President has never existed.
Words, they use them indiscriminately, even to their own apparatus’ detriment. They want to eradicate smoking because that’s a touch point for their rabid NAZI control freaks. They ignore the tax implications, the tobacco settlements and all that - money, mucho mucho money in taxes.
They won’t even think about it until they start to wonder why tax revenues are down. Mental midgets in charge of the playground.
Their recovery from this stupidity (much like the ad hoc retrenchments in ObamaCare’s daily dispensations) will be to tax the ever lovin’ sh!t out of smoking cessation products.
Great job guys. Keep it up. Just keep it up - until we come for you.
And now the new evil, which has no second hand effects, no reputable study that indicates any elevated dangers, and painted as if the Joe Camel himself were handing them out to high schoolers.
Yet congresscritters excoriate E-Cigs, no tar, no carbon monoxide, no ash, no soot, no formaldehyde or other tobacco additives.
“Nearly half a million people will die from smoking-related diseases this year. “
And nearly 2.5 million will die from non-smoking related diseases.
What is their point?
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I didn’t do the research, but I think more people die from abortion than cigarette caused sickness. I know more people die from heart disease than cancer, but heart disease is exacerbated by smoking.
With the government holding the purse strings to medical care, they will find a way, you can bet your entire gun collection on it, to outlaw whatever they please. Be it too much carbohydrates, or sugars, or refined flour, tobacco, alcohol, transfats, saturated fat, gluten, dairy...all for the better good. Or to punish an industry, or reward another.
Outlaw “smoking” and force all nicotine addicts to use e-cigs, which can easily be regulated by FDA as a drug delivery device.
You know what else is bad for citizenry health? Liberalism.
Obviously we all know that poverty and inequality affect people’s health. The surgeon general should be warning people about the affects of liberalism on their health. And THAT’S contagious!
Expecting to hear next that Glowbull warming causes smoking, Smoking causes Glowbull warming, Smoking causes the Polar Vortex, etc...
Prohibition Amendment II?
Yeah, that’ll work.
You won’t see a ban on them, they bring in to much taxes.
Now if they packaged MMJ the same way and sold and charged taxes that high to the ‘medical’ use demanders. They might get some where.
Heck I was told the are also turning it into an oil you can bake with!
While some states made it medical legal, it is still illegal for non patients. And since Fed Law trumps states, the medical is ILLEGAL TOO.
For the anti smoking PC crowd, under the fairness clause of the Constitution, you should build smokers you banished outside in bad weather a heated/ AC shelter, and a lunch room just for them.
I never understood why people want to give so much money in taxes to the gov’t to waste.
I watched both my parents die of lung cancer, they smoked. Had a friend who died of it too, she nor her husband smoked a day in their lives. So who is right?
Next are you going to make me have stomach reduction surgery because you the gov’t consider me obese at 118 for a 5’ woman? One size does NOT fit all, I have large muscle mass. Muscle is heavier than fat. I wear a size 6 in jeans and still have to put tucks in the waist band, as 5’s are hip hugger rags the yuppies wear, and a 10 in button down top.
?????
Sounds like the ‘scientific ’ pitch regarding global warming.
If warm weather doesn't scare people enough because they like warm temperatures then claim it will make the temperature colder.
Why in the world do we even have a “Surgeon General”?
Here’s an idea, rather than wasting BILLIONS of our dollars on yet another prohibition that won’t work... We instead put that money into medical research to fix that litany of health problems?
Seems to me, we’d have designer-cloned replacement lungs by now if they hadn’t gone all Health Nazi on us.