A simple question that needs answers.?
The following is a list of statistics from the year 2000. My question is this. We hear how bad smoking is for you and we are banning it virtually everywhere. Where is the outcry for the rest of these killers? Why are we not increasing taxes on the rest of these taxable items? Why are we not educating on the non taxable items I am just curious. How about you?
Tobacco 435,0001
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 365,0001
Alcohol 85,0001
Microbial Agents 75,000 1
Toxic Agents 55,0001
Motor Vehicle Crashes 26,3471
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,0002
Suicide 30,6223
Incidents Involving Firearms 29,0001
Homicide 20,3084
Sexual Behaviors 20,0001
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,0001, 5
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,6006
First of all I am a smoker. That is why I am posing the question. It seems that this is the only thing that is being taxed or that there is an outrage about. You are correct in stating that we all have a right to choose. However, smokers do not have rights as you can see by all the laws that are being passed against smokers because someone doesn’t like us smoking. I am suggesting that there are many other potential killers out there that no one is outraged about. Why is the focus just on one group instead of all groups?
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