Pipe smoking is bad for you.
Posted on 05/22/2015 12:45:28 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The National Institutes of Health is using hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on grants to study the best ways to get gay people to quit smoking and abusing drugs and alcohol.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has spent over $435,000 since 2010 to carry out a “culturally targeted and individually tailored smoking cessation study” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) smokers, according to the grant information published by the NIH.
Additionally, NIH gave the University of Pittsburgh $43,120 to study tobacco and alcohol use trajectories in “sexual-minority emerging adults” and has awarded over $178,000 to Columbia University to research substance abuse disparities in sexual minority youths.
Taxpayer watchdogs say the agency’s focused grants contradict liberal talking points on equality by using federal money to push a special interest agenda rather than spending it to research general health concerns.
“The assumption that LGBTs are somehow biologically or psychologically different contradicts everything the left tells us, and it makes absolutely no sense to create programs around these interest groups,” said Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government. “This has the appearance of special interest pandering rather than real public health concerns.”
For using tax dollars to fund special interest grants instead of studies that address national health concerns, the NIH wins the Golden Hammer, a weekly distinction awarded by The Washington Times highlighting examples of wasteful or questionable federal spending.
According to NIH, recent data indicates that gay people experience “substantial health disparities,” including significantly higher rates of substance abuse and related health consequences like HIV compared to their heterosexual peers.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Nanny State DANG!
Oh boy. Now we have to worry about Gay smoking huh? If we have Gay marriage, what about Gay Baptism? Gay Communion?
It seems to me that the NIH and other credible medical groups are admitting what homo-activists try to incessantly deny, doesn’t it?
ecent data indicates that gay people experience “substantial health disparities,” including significantly higher rates of substance abuse and related health consequences like HIV compared to their heterosexual peers.
well arent we surprised about the substance abuse.
why use substances to get happy when you’re already ...”gay”??
Liberals are like homos in that they can’t keep their hands to themselves around our money like homo’s can’t keep their hands to themselves around our children.
Such as the 2004 study where half the homosexual male couples admitted to having an open relationship.
I thought AIDS was the biggest health issue affecting gay men.
the money would be better spent proving TO them that they DID make a chice ... it was a bad one ... they CAN redeem themselves .... and they’ll stop smoking, drinking and doing drugs.
These “studies” are just pay offs to supporters, nothing more.
And the other half don't admit to having open relationships.
Pipe smoking is bad for you.
But why admit it? Such numbers admitting that is well, a surprise to me.
Why not just tell them that if they’re smoking after sex, they’re not using enough lube?
If you smoke after sex, you’re doing it too fast.
“I’m Popeye the sailor man [toot!toot!]
“I’m Popeye the sailor man [toot!toot!]
“I yam what I yam and that’s all wot I yam
“I’m Popeye the sailor man. [toot!toot!]”
That is soooooo stupid. I’m pretty sure there are not big difference between gay people and straight people on these issues.
I can see there being ETHNIC differences, even maybe SEX differences, but not sexuality differences.
The basic problem is they are sticking things in their mouths that shouldn’t go there.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.