Posted on 07/30/2017 8:41:21 AM PDT by Drango
Bill Clinton claims he didn’t inhale when he smoked pot, in order to distance himself from “pot smokers”. Most inhale pot.
If insurance companies can charge higher rates for smokers, then they should be able to charge higher rates for behavior which increases risk of HIV.
Get the government out of health care and this isn’t an issue.
It WAS a free country people and smokers have just as many rights to smoking as you do to drinking, eating red meat against government edict (or was it bacon or margarine this week?)
It’s one thing to have laws against smoking in public/shared spaces - entirely another to force it on private businesses and homes and it’s disgusting we’ve been brainwashed to let the government act this way.
"If your government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." (Not Thomas Jefferson but still true)
Are you joking? Do you believe the earth is flat?
Ain’t that the truth. When Exxon funds a study we should disregard their corporate lies but when another corporation,The American Lung Association, does a study it’s the holy grail.
Over eaters too aka fat people.
Of course, peter puffing is just OK.
Not only do pot smokers inhale, they inhale deeply and hold it in their lungs as long as possible to maximize absorption of THC into the bloodstream. Lots of pot smokers die of lung cancer....Bob Marley for instance.
Boy, the old liberal comeback. Guess you believe salt is bad for you too.
A HOLES!!!
Wonder why we don’t see the same studies about the cost of homosexual sex which puts smoking to shame for shortening of life? Keep marching in lockstep comrade.
A personal observation: I worked for about 35 years at a very,*very* famous hospital affiliated with a very,*very* famous medical school.When I first arrived (1970's) at least 75% of the nurses I worked with smoked and at least one third of the physicians did.When I left,not even 25% of the nurses smoked and,to the best of my knowledge,*none* of the physicians did.
Socioeconomics at work.
You obviously never met the bong I had back in the day. LOL
Nobody smokes weed anymore except dried up old hippies. The cool kids these days are vaping and eating it.
Absolutely...life insurance companies already do so.If you smoke,are fat,get speeding tickets,engage in perverse sex acts,etc...you should pay more for health insurance.
Maybe that is true, but what I have seen ( I don’t smoke pot) is that they puff. A smoker inhales more because they take it deeper into their lungs and inhale more frequently, probably 20 inhalations per cigarette. A pot smoker puffs about 3 times to get high.
Problem with that is most smokers are disproportionately from the lower economic strata, therefore they are most likely to be on medicare or Medicaid. Which of course we pay for.
That is the scenario that public health policy should address.
It would lead to encouraging alternatives to cigarettes so people don’t start.
And it leads to developing treatments that reverse smoking’s damage.
The first thing one hears from COPD smokers is “It won’t make any difference now- it’s too late”.
And that’s true.
But treatment that made even marginal improvement could be combined with cessation to make a noticeable improvement.
Unfortunately ALL smoking taxes are spent on ‘goodies’ and diverting any funds to treatment would be politically impossible.
No problem! My post, again, was pure sarcasm, leveled at a Kalifornian, who can’t seem to be, or want others, taxed enough!
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