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To: mdittmar

While dozens of e-cigarettes have exploded in the past three years.........

America’s opioid epidemic now claims 33,000 lives a year. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday shows that opioids, including heroin and prescription painkillers, cause almost two-thirds of all drug- related overdoses in the United States. In the past year, heroin deaths went up 20 percent, and now exceed gun homicides. And since 2000, 300,000 Americans have died from an opioid overdose.

Just let them start taxing e-cigarettes like tobacco and then maybe they will STFU and focus on some serious issues.


20 posted on 12/19/2016 6:52:35 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Toespi

But you can buy nicotine patches...for about $35..a crack..


35 posted on 12/19/2016 7:53:07 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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