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Updated: 6:27 PM Jul 7, 2009
Ambitious goal set to reduce tobacco use in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - State officials are asking Oklahomans to join them in an ambitious goal to reduce tobacco use rates in Oklahoma to below the national average by 2012. Posted: 11:15 AM Jul 7, 2009 |
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In all seriousness, the CDC reports that tobacco consumption is the #1 preventable cause of death in the U.S. Any efforts to discourage it are laudable. It's actually about time the FDA got involved with tobacco regulation. After all, it is a drug, it is highly addictive, and it is dangerous. The tobacco industry has to hook 3000 new smokers A DAY to replace the ones that die daily due to smoking/dipping/chewing related illnesses. Studies show that people who make it to the age of 21 without starting smoking won't ever start. So who are tobacco companies targeting? Teenagers and young adults who are susceptible to advertising and who's sense of identity is still forming. FDA regulation will make it harder to market their poison to children through tougher advertising rules and reducing availability of tobacco products to young people. Tobacco companies are drug dealers, just like Phizer, Glaxo, et al and they need more oversight from the FDA than they currently have.
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Don't pay Biffco no never-mind, he's still worked up over that pot bust in Johnston County the other day.
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By just making smoking illegal and throwing the offenders in jail it would tip the argument back to the privatization of the jail. There is ton of money to be made here people.
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I think they should just superglue all smokers lips together. Then they would just try to shove those stogies up their nose!
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Maybe they could make fast food illegal too since it has a high potential for abuse, is a major cause of obesity and heart disease and has no medical value. Then all those EVIL saturated fat addicts can be thrown in jail with the smokers. Wow, just think of all the addictions you could toy with. The sky's the limit. *puff puff*
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Check out the bill the President signed putting tobacco under the FDA. In Sec 2(33), tobacco use is defined as a "chronic disease." Hmmmm. Be careful folks. If the smoke nazi's are successful in their efforts to rid the world of Demon Tobacco, what illness will the come after next? The common cold? Will people with AIDS be denied the use of restaurants? Will they require you to step outside to sneeze?
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You know if you try to stop smoking people will just start dipping. So you might when the battle of smoking but you won't save lives cuz dipping is just as bad if not worse. I know this because I am a SMOKELESS TOBACCO user myself
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Dayum! This will be worse than trying to stop meth.. tobacco junkies are rather violent.
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Just make tobacco illegal and arrest anyone who manufactures, ships, sells, or consumes it. Put it on the Federal Drug Schedule list as a Schedule I drug (high potential for abuse, no accepted medical value) and start filling the jails up with tobacco addicts for "their own good" and "for the children." This formula has worked for other drugs as these days, illegal drug use is almost non-existent, right (wink, wink)? After all, tobacco is a truly dangerous drug as it kills over 5 million people worldwide every year, 450,000 of those right here in the United States. That's the definition of deadly. Plus it stinks. Hey, let's institute a draconian system of tobacco prohibition with penalties that destroy families, strip people of their civil rights and property, and supplies a steady stream of bodies to the penal system. It's worked so well for other substances, what's stopping us from setting up another system to enforce tobacco laws. We'll call it a "War on Tobacco!" Yeah!
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What's next, a push to lower the state's gambling rate? Are you just TRYING to get the Indians mad?
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LMAO Fire bad
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you go zyklon, you nerve gas you
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White man want Indian to stop using tobacco? LMIAO. Next white man try to take fire water.
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