Posted on 01/22/2009 5:30:01 PM PST by GSP.FAN
ATLANTA, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The annual rate of U.S. smoking-attributable deaths per 100,000 people declined by approximately 25 deaths from 1996-99 to 2000-04, officials said.
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I guess I’ll just keep smoking in that case.
Well, look at the bright side.
Since the initial figures were "Alice-in-Wonderland" fantasy to begin with, nothing would surprise me. Example:
Furby Snerdley, of Anytown, Hawaii, was killed today in a frightening automobile accident, when he hit a concrete abutment while traveling in excess of 130 miles per hour --- on the wrong side of the road. His body was burned beyond recognition in the ensuing fire, and he was decapitated when ejected from the vehicle through the windshield. Three empty bottles of Jack Daniels were found on the front seat. Mr Snerdley, a long-time AIDS activist and well known transvestite, was later found to have a blood alcohol level of 45%. The ashtray in the vehicle was found to contain numerous cigarette butts.
Unfortunately, another tobacco smoke-related death has been tallied.
< /loser twit mode>
Holy Moly, just in time to fund the Schip program.
Its for the kidz, ya know.
Sorry i could not reply sooner i was outside smoking a cigarette.
Zero doesn’t apply.
Tut Tut did i sense some sarcasm in your reply?
Now to let you in on a little secret - eliminating smoking would screw up pensions, Social Security and Medicare. You can probably understand the first two - less smoking = longer life = more money coming out of retirement accounts. The last is surprising, but I'll explain. Everyone dies (big surprise). When anyone is dying, our modern medical system will generally do a lot of very expensive things to save them. Now whether they die at 65 because of smoking related diseases, or give up that vice and die at 75 of heart disease that final losing battle will cost about the same amount. But the non-smokers have extra years of general treatment which add costs. So if you want to save SS and Medicare, smoke up.
uh...yeah, all at once smoking isn’t killing us anymore, light up...one, two, three at a time. It is patriotic and it won’t kill ya.
big ole/s
I was shocked when you said everyone dies.
“So if you want to save SS and Medicare, smoke up”.
I feel like a patriot now suffering so SS and Medicare can stay in existence.
On further review i am thinking of giving up cigarettes.
Did you ever see the “Odd Couple” show where Oscar is playing pool and Felix keeps interrupting him about smoking? Felix says his 35 year old friend, a smoker, just died. Oscar loses the game of pool because he gets upset. He asks Felix what the guy died from, cancer, heart attack, what? Felix says, oh none of those, he got hit by a bus.
We smoke IN our house, we tell our company to go outside.
HaHaHa.
We have a 3 month old daughter,my wife makes me go outside.
I am still allowed to drink beer in the house though.
We quit over 25 years ago, and tell our company to smoke outside. The smell is disgusting.
I am much healthier since I quit smoking. If I gave up single malt scotch, I might be even healthier. But a man got to know his limits.
After the health police get finished with the fat people they’ll “discover” that beer and liquor give off toxic fumes. That’s why they call them “spirits”.
I’d just like to thank you for supporting so many
worthy causes. Chilren, of course and whatever else
needs funding.
I will start smoking weed, for some reason weed is ok in CA but cigs are bad.
I encourage every smoker to start making their own.
I started 4 years ago.
It takes less than 10 minutes to make a pack and costs about 70 cents.
Plus you get the satisfaction of not paying the sin tax.
Google RYO or roll your own, or FReep mail and I’ll tell you where I get my supplies.
I am going to try the e-cigarette. People have been using them in restricted areas with no problems.
The reason weed is ok in Calif. is because left-wingers like it.
Jose Canseco was on Howard Stern this morning shilling the product.
Arguments for prohibition include physical and mental health for the user and damage for non users, the increased concentration of THC in marijuana, more accidents, more risky behavior, public order grounds, the “gateway drug” argument, increased cost for public health and treatment of addicts, loss of manpower, loss of tax income and purely political grounds such as vote catching and simple dislike of the drug culture. Other types of arguments are the same as the arguments for prohibition of smoking of tobacco in public places like restaurants, trains, etc.
Arguments against prohibition include civil rights issues (including religious ones), loss of potential tax revenues, unnecessary criminalization of ordinary people and the enforced mixing of cannabis users with sellers of more dangerous drugs and the associated criminal underworld.
An often overlooked argument against prohibition is the inevitable increase in potentially dangerous impurities that distribution through criminal networks entails (although this is mainly relevant to hashish and, of course, other illegally manufactured drugs) and the health hazards and their costs that these impose.
An often overlooked argument pro prohibition is that legalization will promote drug tourism and criminal networks in other parts of the world where cannabis is not legal.
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