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Kicking the habit: Adult smoking rate in US is falling fast
TownHall ^ | May 24, 2016 | AP

Posted on 05/24/2016 5:50:57 AM PDT by Drango

Edited on 05/24/2016 6:16:28 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (AP)

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1 posted on 05/24/2016 5:50:57 AM PDT by Drango
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To: Drango

Except for pot. It is going up, up, up!


2 posted on 05/24/2016 5:53:42 AM PDT by refermech
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To: Drango

muslims love to smoke. I see this trend reversing...


3 posted on 05/24/2016 5:54:35 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Drango

I quit smoking in 2003 but it wasn’t because of government-funded anti-smoking PSAs. I just couldn’t justify it anymore.


4 posted on 05/24/2016 5:58:35 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Drango

Thank God.


5 posted on 05/24/2016 6:05:39 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: refermech

I saw that the price fo a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in NYC was $14 (rougly about $840 a month if you smoke two packs a day). Yikes! Glad I’m a non-smoker.


6 posted on 05/24/2016 6:06:07 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: GSWarrior
Congrats on the quitting!
7 posted on 05/24/2016 6:07:45 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

I remember seeing a cartoon a long time ago with the caption “I didn’t say I quit smoking, I said I gave up tobacco.”


8 posted on 05/24/2016 6:07:46 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Drango

Why?

Because people are being bullied into it by fascist companies.

If you smoke in most companies you pay an extra 1 to 3K a year more for your health insurance.

I don’t smoke but I hate bullies.

I notice that politically correct at-risk behaviors are not so penalized.


9 posted on 05/24/2016 6:10:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Drango

Reasons for the drop include costs/taxes and health concerns. A pack is about $6 in my area, and I don’t think that includes the taxes.

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I live in a 20 unit apartment complex in a town of 14k. About 1/3 of the residents are old/retired. About 2/3 are young/younger singles/couples, many in their late teens or early twenties.

I have noticed in the 7+ years I have lived here that there is usually at least 1 smoker and many times 2 smokers among the young residents.

Based just on observations, I would say there is little decline among young people.

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I quit in early 2003 and use the extra money as my occasional spurge fund — when I want a new computer or peripheral or TV, etc. I estimate that I save around $3,500 per year.


10 posted on 05/24/2016 6:12:04 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Not to worry, stock holders.


11 posted on 05/24/2016 6:12:44 AM PDT by Wolfie
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:: Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of preventable illness, causing more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States, the CDC estimates ::

Please provide official death certificates from a proper coroner that confirms the cause of death as “smoking tobacco”

Beuhler?


12 posted on 05/24/2016 6:12:44 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: jsanders2001

No kidding! A nasty addictive habit that costs a fortune and then kills you.


13 posted on 05/24/2016 6:13:49 AM PDT by refermech
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To: Drango

As I told my brother...

If I live to be 90 years old, I’ll start smoking again because smoking takes 10 years off of your life span.
Think about it..


14 posted on 05/24/2016 6:15:27 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

There is always someone wants to dispute the concept that tobacco kills. Sorry not taking the bait.


15 posted on 05/24/2016 6:16:03 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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Proud to be part of that decline last year. Smoked a carton a week of Marlboro 100s for 30 years. Woke up the morning of December 19th with a chest cold and said, "I'm not going to smoke today."

Haven't smoked since. No gum, vaping, pills, patches either. Straight cold turkey.

I'm feeling great!!!

16 posted on 05/24/2016 6:18:44 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drango

And in the meantime, obesity rates skyrocket, as does the use of anti-anxiety medications, road rage incidents, and the general coarseness of daily life. But, by all means, let us cheer the falling rates of smoking. /s


17 posted on 05/24/2016 6:19:17 AM PDT by LSAggie
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To: jsanders2001

I roll my own and it cost about 25 cents a pack.


18 posted on 05/24/2016 6:21:04 AM PDT by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: Drango
Anyone remember the angry smokers mob who used to rant regularly against the anti-smokers here?

Haven't seen that in forever.

19 posted on 05/24/2016 6:22:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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I’d love to see among which groups smoking remains high. My guess would be homosexuals and leftists.


20 posted on 05/24/2016 6:22:55 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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