So your reasoning is that their lifestyle justifies taxing them more?
Is vaping a "lifestyle"?
If so, yes - tax them more.
So your reasoning is that their lifestyle justifies taxing them more?
Vaping was assumed to be the safe way to smoke.
LOL!Did Juul know the consequences and put it on the market anyway?
There are some pretty yummy edibles that are out there in my neck of the woods (and yes...it's legal here...smack dab in the middle of flyover country!)
But their shorter lives consume more healthcare.
I have heard that Smokers actually use less healthcare. They do not live as long, a they do not linger at the end. Certainly they use less Social Security.
A non-smoker lingers far longer and uses more healthcare.
Fly boy, what I have been told about edibles is that it’s hard to control your high. So you can end up much higher than intended. With smoking you can feel it and know when to stop. It’s legal here.
Actually, my recollection of the tobacco trials is that by dying earlier, the net health care cost for smokers is the same or less than for non-smokers. But for some reason that evidence was not permitted at trial.But their shorter lives consume more healthcare.
I have heard that Smokers actually use less healthcare. They do not live as long, a they do not linger at the end. Certainly they use less Social Security.
A non-smoker lingers far longer and uses more healthcare.
Glad to hear your DW is surviving well, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." It is the statistical data we are talking about here.Not all smokers. ...
Glad to hear your DW is surviving well, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." It is the statistical data we are talking about here.
Glad to hear your DW is surviving well, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." It is the statistical data we are talking about here.
In 2015, 3.2 million people died from COPD worldwide, an increase of 11.6 percent compared with 1990. During that same time period, the prevalence of COPD increased by 44.2 percent to 174.5 million individuals. In the United States, an estimated 16 million adults have COPD.
Seems like many of the carts were from illegal sources.
A fourth person has been charged in what prosecutors say was a massive counterfeit THC vape cartridge operation run out of a Kenosha County condominium and a Union Grove real estate office.
Irrelevant data, actually. But I understand that you feel that DW's good luck can be extrapolated to all of society. Neither is the basis for a rational discussion. Have a nice evening.Well, here's some DATA for you: ...
Well then, let the Senator present some...
RESULTS
Health care costs for smokers at a given age are as much as 40 percent higher than those for nonsmokers, but in a population in which no one smoked the costs would be 7 percent higher among men and 4 percent higher among women than the costs in the current mixed population of smokers and nonsmokers. If all smokers quit, health care costs would be lower at first, but after 15 years they would become higher than at present. In the long term, complete smoking cessation would produce a net increase in health care costs, but it could still be seen as economically favorable under reasonable assumptions of discount rate and evaluation period.
CONCLUSIONS
If people stopped smoking, there would be a savings in health care costs, but only in the short term. Eventually, smoking cessation would lead to increased health care costs.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710093371506
I don't know about all that preparation, but currently, 5 members of my immediate family use CBD. Forget prescriptions, too many side effects and harm to the organs. We have inherited rheumatoid arthritis in our family. Also have a healthy consumption of alcohol. A drop or two of CBD under the tongue or in candy has helped with a lot of pain. And helps sleep.I went from joints to a vape after my NHL diagnosis because of the mouth sores during chemotherapy - I'll never go back. I use a "dry herb" vaporizer that does not burn the flower. It uses convection heating with no direct contact between the herb and the heating element. I found that around 385° is just about right to vaporize the THC and CBD. Combustion actually occurs around 445°. No throat irritation, virtually odorless, no smoke (a slight hint of the vapor that looks kinda like smoke). It made what would otherwise been a very negative experience tolerable.
I don't want to highjack this thread - but the Feds should reconsider its classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug to allow more research on the drug to take advantage of what I think are many benefits of both THC and CBD.Only then can we separate opinion from actual science.
I'm going to start making my own. They work great, had a bug for a week and they allow me to sleep for hours. I don't like the cost @$50 for a 1000mg. A quarter oz is $25 out the door and contains more than 1000mg. Add in some jello and you are good.Gummies
Glad to hear your DW is surviving well, but the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." It is the statistical data we are talking about here.