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Title: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: newman on September 13, 2007, 08:14:02 PM
"Still, the federal government, along with several states, now sues tobacco manufacturers to "recoup" costs spent on health care. Never mind that many economists argue that because smokers die sooner than they otherwise would, the taxpayer actually saves money otherwise spent on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. W. Kip Viscusi, a Duke University economist, calculated the societal costs of smoking (medical care, sick leave, life insurance, fire, secondhand smoke, lost taxes on earnings) against societal benefits (nursing home savings, pension, and Social Security saving, excise tax paid). The net result? We gain 58 cents on every pack of cigarettes smoked." ..........


From Larry Elder's The Ten Things You Can't Say In America...

Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: Ultra Requete on September 19, 2007, 09:15:03 AM
That's true; that why i quit smoking; The EU is paying subsides to tabbaco farmers... what a hipocrites LOL! ::)
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: White Israelite on September 19, 2007, 09:50:17 AM
I've never smoked in my life. I like my beer though.
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: JTFFan on November 14, 2007, 01:13:57 AM
I've never smoked either and also enjoy Beer.
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: דוד בן זאב אריה on December 18, 2007, 05:20:10 PM
I only smoke Hookah (The only good Muslim Invention). Beer is good also I may have some Whisky or Vodka on Shabat but on the weekdays I don't drink much.
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: Ambiorix on December 18, 2007, 05:39:29 PM
Great excuse to start smoking again!...that and the fact that liberals hate smokers unless they are smoking marijuana.
I don't mind people smoking if it's good for the state, it's good for me   :P
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: דוד בן זאב אריה on December 18, 2007, 05:44:25 PM
not if you are the one breathing it but is up everyone to avoid it and not to impose our views on them.
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: Ambiorix on December 18, 2007, 05:53:04 PM
not if you are the one breathing it but is up everyone to avoid it and not to impose our views on them.
In Belgium finally smoking is banned in restaurants.
God, i miss those blue clouds of the people from the other tables smoking cigarettes, while I was still eating!!
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: Hail Columbia on December 29, 2007, 07:33:20 PM
I only smoke Hookah (The only good Muslim Invention). Beer is good also I may have some Whisky or Vodka on Shabat but on the weekdays I don't drink much.

Wasn't hooka really an Indian invention?
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: JTFFan on December 30, 2007, 05:12:51 PM
I only smoke Hookah (The only good Muslim Invention). Beer is good also I may have some Whisky or Vodka on Shabat but on the weekdays I don't drink much.

Wasn't hooka really an Indian invention?

I think so. Although muSSlims love smokkking it.. lol. ;D
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: Ambiorix on December 30, 2007, 08:03:13 PM
I only smoke Hookah (The only good Muslim Invention). Beer is good also I may have some Whisky or Vodka on Shabat but on the weekdays I don't drink much.

Wasn't hooka really an Indian invention?

I think so. Although muSSlims love smokkking it.. lol. ;D
they call it argileh. I smoked it a couple of times. good taste.

I like single malt whiskey (if not too heavy taste) , Cognac.
Wodka I don't like a lot, 1 -2 glasses maximum.
Title: Re: Smoking is good for the Nation's budget.
Post by: ramen on January 09, 2008, 07:39:01 PM
i neither smoke nor drink. it a waste of money and ventually u gna kill ure self. btw is alocohol allowed in jewism. We went to a synogogue and teh priest saidit aint but many people confrom to the west.