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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 08, 2019, 01:21:37 pm
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Nanny State Hawaii May Increase Smoking Age To 100
Mac Slavo — February 7, 2019
The state government in Hawaii wants to increase the smoking age to 100. Although pretty much everyone on Earth knows smoking is damaging to a person’s overall health, the nanny state is taking it upon themselves to ban the use of more substances.
Nothing good can ever come from the government dictating to people what they are allowed to put in their bodies, and that includes smoking. Are we free or not? Do we own ourselves or not? Governments assume they own us as tax cattle and therefore it’s their right to tell us how to live our lives. Unfortunately, too many bow down to the whims of the state while others enforce these nanny state policies.
https://freedomoutpost.com/nanny-state-hawaii-may-increase-smoking-age-to-100/
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I presume that is the smoking age for tobacco, not marijuana?
Funny how one is 'medicinal" and the other (which has physiological effects which, under certain circumstances may be beneficial) is completely reviled by the medical community.
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RACE/ETHNICITY of Smokers in Hawaii
Smoking - Asian
HI: 8.4%
U.S.: 8.1%
Smoking - Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
HI: 20.8%
U.S.: 16.7%
Smoking - Hispanic
HI: 16.8%
U.S.: 13.5%
Smoking - Multiracial
HI: 18.8%
U.S.: 23.2%
Smoking - White
HI: 12.0%
U.S.: 17.1%
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Smoking/state/HI (https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Smoking/state/HI)
Banning Smoking would be racist.