re: Biden administration says it plans to cut nicotine in cigarettes

Can yall confirm that you only downvoted this because it was me who posted it?

I think yall are missing the point, which is if they are going to regulate (or make something illegal) it should be cigarettes.

Between cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana, marijuana has the least amount of negative impacts.

And do you know how much medical problems cigarettes cause?


Here is an article from 2014.

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(Reuters) - Of every $10 spent on healthcare in the U.S., almost 90 cents is due to smoking, a new analysis says.

Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.

“Fifty years after the first Surgeon General’s report, tobacco use remains the nation’s leading preventable cause of death and disease, despite declines in adult cigarette smoking prevalence,” said Xin Xu from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who led the study.

Over 18 percent of U.S. adults smoke cigarettes and about one in five deaths are caused by smoking, according to the CDC.

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Reuters