Fed taking steps to kill Tobacco. Maybe Tobacco growers should start considering the Cannabis market instead.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0ME0SF20140317
Fed taking steps to kill Tobacco. Maybe Tobacco growers should start considering the Cannabis market instead.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0ME0SF20140317
Well, good, though only a request but still going in the right direction to stop tobacco sales
I approve of this; since I'm far too stupid to decide for myself whether or not I should consume tobacco products, I need the U.S. government to make that decision for me, and retailers should ideally suffer as a result.
These smoking threads are always really interesting. I just quit smoking and I already wan't to pick up a pack because I am afraid I will become one of you.
Smokers die sooner, thus costing the taxpayer much less in total lifetime gov't cheese (disability, medicare, medicaid, and 'pensions') than nonsmokers.
Also, cig taxes are way down due to the rise of vaping. Hence, the money-grubbing taxmongers are now after e-cigs.
Should not have named them that, just called them inhalers or vaporators or something.
Taxpayers often still pick up the burden of treating people's medical problems. If the person has insurance, it still drives up the price for everyone.
Cigarettes are nasty though and retailers should stop carrying them. In fact cigarettes should just stop existing period. They smell and taste terrible. I smoke a smooth, tasty cigar maybe once a month, if that much. If people stopped smoking cigarettes this world would smell a lot better.
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Fastfood creates more health problems then cigarettes, so you are also paying extra for fat people. You can also get lung cancer from car exhausts and smog, so you also pay extra for people who drive cars + they ruin a perfect blue sky in big cities. You also pay extra for people with kids, because those people get child allowances.
The list goes on and on, so your individual stance on tabacco smell isn't really a thing I'm concerned with, since everybody has a subjective experience on these kind of things.
depending on what happens, you could easily exceed the amount of money you've paid into insurance. doing something incredibly risky, like eating too much of the wrong foods and smoking, will likely result in you needing other people's money.
Don't know about the US, but in alot of countries in Europe the government taxes Tobacco so heavily that if they would ban the products right now some countries would get into serious financial trouble despite the fact that the Healthcare costs would probably go down in the long run. They yell that they want everyone to quit but behind the scenes they are praying for us to keep buying the stuff.
Lol because only well off people smoke? I wouldn't be surprised if smoking was much more common among poor people based on personal experience.
It's not really about the taxes though, most of the people that advocate that system are getting/would get more than they're paying into it by far like every other aspect of social programs. It's just part of the game: pretend you want tax-funded healthcare costs, then act like people making bad choices is an unwelcome burden on the system you wanted in the first place. It never stops being about politics for them. Every decision they get a vote on is a victory.