Posted on 01/02/2021 2:07:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
If cancer is eliminated and/or cured the American Cancer Association (and all other cancer “charities”) go out of business.
Follow the money....
Philadelphia's soda tax may have little consumption-reducing effect if https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2020/February/Soda-Tax-and-Beverage-Consumption/ is to be believed. Maybe because Philly's tax isn't quite as stiff as Seattle's?
Are there taxes on other sugary foods out there?
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It was a ‘friend’ in good times and bad.
My daughter found her mother dead on the floor beside the bed.
She had been trying to make it to her oxygen supply but the COPD won the battle.
I’ve lost too many people to lung cancer.
I detest the habit. I quit it myself 13 years ago.
*** the government started giving cigarettes to service members in World War I.***
Dad was a non-smoker till he got hooked in WW II. He then never could break the habit.
I spent 4 years in the military and never received a cigarette. I did have a ration card for beer and cigarettes but never used them.
On a commercial airplane flight in 1966, I was given a meal and two cigarettes, free. I gave them to someone else.
I still remember the last advertisements o Johnny Carson.
After that date the TV was inundated with advertisements for “Cigarillos.” I still remember the jingle... “WINCHESTER’S SOMETHING ELSE! Winchester...!”
Also, movies began product placement of cigarettes in various films. I still remember the movie Backdraft (1991) in which after a bad fire, all the firemen are shown lighting up and puffing away.
Now am binge watching the old TWILIGHT ZONE. Everyone on that show is shown smoking, including Rod Serling. “Brought to you by OASIS Cigarettes!”
***the military cigarette ration was to tide you over if additional food was delayed.***
People inhaled cigarette smoke different back in those days. You sucked the smoke into your mouth, then swallowed it to your stomach, then burped it back up and blew it out. All this bypassed the lungs.
Later they sucked it into the lungs.
Nasty either way.
Sung to the tune of Santana's "Evil Ways"!
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There is one customer I have where smoking is allowed in the entire factory. The offices and even the data center isn’t off limits.
It’s a flashback to 1975. I won’t say who it is.
Agree a lot more stupidity now days.
Like Robin Williams said, “You steal our land, we give you monkey on your back!”
The first season of Mad Men was classic, about how they came up with the Lucky Strikes “It’s Toasted” ad.
Lol!
10-4
My cousin, a nurse finally broke him of the habit but it took years.
Still have one on my key chain.
“Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country!’’
LOL! Yep they always advertised as if it was food. I was addicted to cigarettes and the only thing that ever mattered to me was how much nicotine a butt had. I don’t remember anything having to do with “flavor” unless it was a menthol which I stayed away from. I read once all those Marlboro cowboys died from cancer, 5 of them.
I also think that is was just a distraction with a nicotine rush replacing the energy provided by food.
My question about warning labels still stands.
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“My question about warning labels still stands.
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And it is a good question. But liberal governments, like reside in Washington, mainly King and Pierce Counties that control the entire state’s voting numbers and are liberal as he((, support the taxing of anything they can which can make the state money while creating behavioral modification.
We have the highest gas tax in the nation to try to force people into public transportation, we have a huge tax on commercial vehicles (trucks) using the highways to buffer the road repairs that is little used for that, property taxes are completely out of control and are not protestable as the board you go to has no power to change anything, (I tried once), we have a sales tax in excess of 9% that is supposed to full fill the absence of a state income tax (day ain’t over on that as they are talking again)...there are a number of other taxes along with liberal propoganda added up that are there to create an atmosphere of response their way. And they bombard the public with anything and everything they can in this direction. And they lie.
So get ready for about anything now that the liberals are in control. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. All this crap will be coming to a state near you soon.
wy69
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