Posted on 03/12/2015 8:14:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The authors of the Lancet's centerpiece editorial said a so-called tobacco-free world -- in which fewer than 5% of adults smoke -- is "socially desirable, technically feasible and could become politically practical."
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Making tobacco use "out of sight, out of mind and out of fashion -- yet not prohibited" could be achieved only with a "turbo-charged approach," wrote a team of public health experts from Australia, Hong Kong and India. To achieve it, the United Nations, national leaders, and public- and private-sector institutions all would need to collaborate, they wrote.
In addition to governments setting policies such as those assessed by the Institute of Medicine, Lancet's "call to action" called for employers worldwide to ban tobacco use in workplaces; pharmacies across the globe to stop selling tobacco products and stores selling them to be limited and tightly regulated; advertising to end completely; and smoking-cessation efforts to be stepped up and supported by life and health insurers everywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The US government could eliminate the tobacco market within a month if they simply said they would have nothing to do with regulating tobacco or issuing warnings. Let the tobacco manufacturers devise a warning sufficiently dire that it protects them from selling a product that kills consumers when it is used as designed. The lawyers would have the carcassed cleaned in a matter of weeks.
Thank God for experts. If it weren’t for them, who would take care of me?
... but a girl can get an abortion as young as she can get pregnant.
This will never happen.
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It seems ironic that a lot of the same people who want us to not smoke cigarettes want us all to smoke marijuana. They are in favor of legalizing marijuana, but severely restricting cigarettes. Anyone else see the irony???
Tobacco is so yesterday, we’re on to prescription opiates now.
(Do I have to put a < /sarc>?)
If it is so bad, why not just make it illegal? The answer is the government will not as they care about tax revenue. This goes along with anything—doughnuts, soft drinks, hard drinks, gum—you name it, it is not about freedom but about government control. Witness Obamacare—the Pandora’s box that is yet to be opened.
Sure and diagnosed ADULT ADHD for which you need.... speed.
adderall. Incredible. A drug in search of a diagnosis.
Can’t focus— take a nap!
theyre stoned and dedicated to remaining in their self induced hazes
Great they want to raise the age for buying cigarettes and lower the voting age.
Want to see them squirm? Mention the over 100 carcinogens present in marijuana that have not been explored as to their toxicity, HD 50 levels.
MANY studies, truly peer reviewed on the increased incidents of cancers in chronic marijuana smokers. It AINT the THC that does this-— it is the smoke components.
And on good authority— RJ Reynolds is positioned to take over the “legalized” mass manufacture and marketing of weed— flavors, filters all the regular shiite they did with baccy. Lying Democrat donor jackasses. About which see the head of the DNC finance for decades... Dick Reynolds (also one miserable alkie SOB with fantastic wealth based on the misery of his family “product”).
Tobacco companies just need to lace their cigarettes with pot. Then it may become mandatory to smoke them.
Fascism, is it ever out of fashion? Build an industry dependent upon tobacco taxes and then try and destroy tobacco, insanity.
Myself, I’d really like to see a nosey, intrusive, *sshole free world, but it’s not likely ever to happen.
follow the money....they want weed to be the massive problem crisis its meant to be so they can "fix" it for decades like they are doing to regular smokes....
just imagine all the new federal employees we'll be able to hire to "fix" all the weed problems...
You could make tobacco illegal and people would still smoke it.
Do some research on the health benefits of tobacco and nicotine, you’ll be surprised.
Could that just be a numbers thing? Probably more non smokers than smokers. But hey, anything to keep me puffing, LOL. Just wish they would lower the price.
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