Posted on 11/08/2018 11:26:43 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
New data from the U.S. government shows just 14 percent of adults overall in smoke cigarettes, but experts say there is still much more work to do to bring the number lower.
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Both my parents and all four of my grandparents died of smoking related diseases. I am clearly genetically predisposed to being harmed by smoking. Had I been born a generation earlier I would have likely been a smoker and probably dead or severely incapacitated by now. Plus, as a pathologist who has diagnosed numerous smoking related cancers I am cheered by this news.
“Cigarette Smoking In U.S. Reaches All-Time Low”
And all the liberal programs that get funded from cigarette taxes are hurting right now.
Watch them pivot to new revenue sources.
I smoked for awhile. I decided to quit and did.
The best thing anyone can do is quit smoking.
Once marijuana becomes legal nationwide, which is inevitable, this number will only go up. Fortunately few people smoke 20, or 40, or 60 joints a day, unlike tobacco cigarettes.
Agree!
I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. And the only cigarettes I’ve ever picked-up are the butts thrown onto my lawn.
I also made my parents quit in 1975 at 6 yrs old
Europeans and Asians are still smoking cigs like chimneys.
Given the silly price of a single pack of cigarettes nowadays, why would you want to smoke?
I went with my wife yesterday to Bohemian Rhapsody. One thing I noticed is the actors didn’t know how to hold a cigarette, didn’t look comfortable doing it. I’m not a smoker, never was, but it just looked off. Probably not a bad thing, though.
The only pivoting they’ve done is to continually increase the cigarette tax on the shrinking number of these poor addicted souls.
Along with the meth labs
I quit the day after the 2016 election.
When Trump was elected, my stress level went down.
Plus I didn’t want to feed the beast with tobacco tax.
At least smokers can still function mentally. Eisenhower comes to mind.
I would love to see a map of areas where it’s now legal to smoke pot and cross correlate it with crime, homelessness, and voting patterns.
Tyrants LOVE an impaired population. It’s why the Japanese let the Chinese have all the opium they wanted. And they rarely mess with the crap themselves.
and if you quit fags(cigarettes)
I’ll tax your bags(grocery bags)
cause I’m the taxman!
Unfortunately non- smokers can come down with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. You end up the same way as if you were a heavy smoker. - Tom
“few people smoke 20, or 40, or 60 joints a day”
After one or two, they forget where they left their stash.
They and their couch merge into one.
An estimated 34 million adults in the United States smoked cigarettes in the previous 30 days in 2017, which is down from 15.5 percent in 2016 and 67 percent less since 1965
That’s because they’ve switched to drugs and pot.
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