I’ve lost reletives to cancer from tobacco use and one uncle to booze.
Notice I meant DIED, not that they just became lazy people
Can we make that illegal too? Think we can spend billions on stoping all bad choices adults make?
Have you lost a close relative, one who is still living, to drugs? Really awful to watch, for decades.......
Several close friends are transplant surgeons. Heart transplant surgeons. The will NOT transplant a heart into a person who is addicted to tobbacco— for CLINICAL reasons. So— yeah, there is an argument to stop the sale of tobacco. But politically— our “leaders” suck money out of the producers (who now IMPORT tobacco to the US from... Zimbabwe?..Seriously!!) from the tax revenue the addiction produces. And... on another level, the mortality tables of insurers (at least the socialist obamaumaumaocare ones) absolutely LOVE smokers— they have to pay the premiums and the die long before they can access the funds for their own care coverage. Once heard this “subject rate payer” described as a “perfect HMO enrollee” who dies young. And social security too— benefits from death before eligible age. Truth.