Tobacco 21 passes first vote in St. Louis County

[Badger]

What is the point of preserving human life if all of life is pain?

Because it'd be a lot more painful with a black lung.

Rather have a good life with black lungs than a bad one without them. We all die of something sometime.

That's exactly the level of immature teenage mindset that makes such a compelling argument in favor of this measure.

[Badger]

The weird, cold hearted truth, is that according to Actuarial reports lowering taxes on cigarettes at this point would actually be o-net increase for the government Treasury. Yes, there are additional Health costs involved for the government, but more people dying younger from smoking-related illnesses and that's the savings on retirement costs and non-smoking related Health costs, reportedly actually more than make up for the loss and tobacco tax revenue and increased tobacco-related Health costs combined.

Even though I'm not the one that did these studies come I still feel a little bit like I'm going to hell for even posting that.