Feds Spend $33,341 to Find Out if Same-Sex Couples Live Close to Tobacco Shops

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | December 22, 2014 | Elizabeth Harrington

[bunkerhill7]

Feds Spend $33,341 to Find Out if Moslem Couples Live Close to Goat Farms

[JoeFromSidney]

Old joke from the Former Soviet Union. A listener writes in to Radio Armenia: "What is scientific research?" Radio Armenia replies: "As far as we have been able to determine, scientific research is the satisfaction of private curiosity at public expense."

[Albion Wilde]

“Tobacco use is substantially higher among sexual minorities than among heterosexuals,” the grant states. “The reasons for this persistent disparity remain unclear..."

Stuck in the oral-anal phase?

[PGalt]

DEFUND/DISMANTLE N.I.H.

[Ken H]

Finally, finally!, we can get an answer this long-standing question and move on.

[Gene Eric]

>> “where people live and their proximity to tobacco retailers can influence decisions to quit smoking”

What’s wrong with this assertion, my FRiends?

[samtheman]

Your graph clearly shows that rising pirate populations bring about a rise in global temperature. The way to fight global warming is to kill pirates.

Now that’s the first global warming prescription I would sign on to, as long as everyone realizes that the be results won’t be felt immediately and you just have to keep killing pirates no matter what.

[Rodamala]

Ninjas apparently don't notice the dual timescale/quantity values on the abscissa in that chart and that the quantity of pirates is decreasing.

Keep killing pirates, Ninja... Global inferno will be YOUR doing.

[Madame Dufarge]

Lee has surveyed gays, bisexuals, and lesbians at bars in West Virginia to see if they smoke

Well, you've got to give Lee a thumbs-up for resourcefulness.

He figured out a way to keep hanging out at his favorite gay bars and get the taxpayers to pay his tab.

[hal ogen]

Just wait. This is probably a “preliminary” study to justify multimillion dollar studies about this useless crapola. I can't wait to hear the results of whether fat lesbos live near tobacco shops And whether or not they rollerskate while they watch endangered desert tortoises have “gay” sex. After all, those with worthless degrees need to make a living. Have a Merry Christmas!

[AppyPappy]

Fact: Gays are more likely to smoke.
Theory: Gays smoke but it isn’t their fault.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Awesome graphic!
You could put that forth as as serious theory; and a large percentage (mainly Obama supporters) wouldn’t question the correlation.

[Madame Dufarge]

This is probably a “preliminary” study

Remember the old Chinese proverb, "Every journey to the public teat begins with the first step." Words to live by.

And a Merry Christmas to you, too!

[Eric Blair 2084]

This is one of the PC political contradictions that Dem big government statists have to walk like a tight rope.

Kind of like San Francisco liberal environmentalists versus the blue-collar union wing of the party.