Interesting fact about the CDC, they are funded in part by tobacco taxes that kill 1300 Americans every day

MrSquished

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Interesting fact about Trump's stop the steal campaign, it's funded by literal political retards and total factual morons.
 
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You can shove your straw man up your ass, you know, where your head is also located.

I don't know, he makes a good argument. 500k deaths is a pretty good reason to push for "free" healthcare, don't you think? Honestly though, imagine how quickly things would change if smokers were forced to wear masks keeping their smoke to themselves.

Same deal with the "who cares about guns, smoking kills!" argument. I say we put an end to tobacco and then apparently they'll be on board with doing something about guns.
 

ch33zw1z

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Is he mad that people are dying or mad that taxes from cigarettes is going into research and policies to help keep people from dying from them? I'm so confused by this troll.

The Troll is whatever trolls.
 
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Meghan54

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Is he mad that people are dying or mad that taxes from cigarettes is going into research and policies to help keep people from dying from them? I'm so confused by this troll.

Seems he’s a bit confused himself but cut him some slack. He only just got assigned this forum and it takes a bit to become acclimated to Western/American syntax and idiom.
 

ch33zw1z

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America's love affair with smoking has long last effects. Even tho we've greatly reduced smoking in the last few decades, and taxes being a big part of that, there's still many that smoke.

And yes, taxes on smoking should go towards public health education and tobacco usage reduction. No brainer
 
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America's love affair with smoking has long last effects. Even tho we've greatly reduced smoking in the last few decades, and taxes being a big part of that, there's still many that smoke.

And yes, taxes on smoking should go towards public health education and tobacco usage reduction. No brainer
1300 die every day from smoke and no one gives a hoot. Yet when the same amount of people die of another thing the Earth is coming to an end and we must lockdown creating even more suicides.

And the CDC is still funded by tobacco taxes
 

ch33zw1z

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1300 die every day from smoke and no one gives a hoot. Yet when the same amount of people die of another thing the Earth is coming to an end and we must lockdown creating even more suicides.

And the CDC is still funded by tobacco taxes

This is your strawman.

Plenty of people give a hoot, that's why there's been a coordinated effort for decades to reduce smoking.

Yes, it's different that the pandemic you're comparing it to, for plenty of obvious reasons

The CDC is funded in many different ways, and yes, tobacco taxes contribute.

So all of a sudden you care, cool, what's your plan to curtail smoking even more? If you say outlaw it, I'll laugh in your face. 😉