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Originally Posted by MaryMS
QUOTE=mtdjed;2310579]While I am not a smoker, couldn't help but notice an article in today's Village Daily Sun, regarding a Brookline City bylaw being approved to ban cigarette and tobacco sales to anyone born in the 21st century. Upheld by the States highest court.
What next, Alcohol, Birth Control, Ice Cream?
So, in 2050, a person 51 years old will be buying cigarettes for their 49-year-old neighbors at $50/pack.
While at it, why not ban people born before 1980, since they have already been exposed to enough smoke.
Not picking on smokers but rather the rule makers.
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If smokers want to pay big bucks to hasten their own deaths, it is their business. However all the butts they throw out their cars and leave on the golf courses and roads is what needs to be outlawed. Some are real slobs.[/QUOTE]
But it is our business if people want to smoke themselves to death. It impacts our health care system. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking kills more people than alcohol, car crashes, suicide, AIDS, murder, and drugs combined. Smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading type of cancer in men and women. During 2010-2014, an estimated 11.7% (95% CI = 11.6%, 11.8%) of U.S. annual healthcare spending could be attributed to adult cigarette smoking, translating to annual healthcare spending of more than $225 billion dollars based on total personal healthcare expenditures reported in 2014.