with the amount of weed smoked in cali, its more proof that it doesn't cause lung cancer. smoking cigarettes is just dumb, it does nothing for you. might as well at least catch a buzz if you're gonna inhale smoke.

Also, his "stats" start in 1933. I don't believe the CA smoking laws came into effect then...

This thread is hilarious.

Alabama is the Opposite living style of California.

This stat is extremely good news for California and Cancer research btw.

You're right, taxpayers should not have to pay for smoking related illnesses, ie. lung cancer, oral cancers, etc...

California smokers are killed in drive by shootings before they get cancer.

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Most of US shoot back now

Get a grip.

The only thing you shoot off is your mouth and with extreme inaccuracy.

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FYI Cali has always had a lower lung cancer rate/smoking rate than the rest of the country. Way before ban smoking in bars (1994) etc.

Clearly I have better research skills than the people at NPR. I found this info within 30 seconds of reading the article. :thumbsup

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4947a4.htm

Not to mention about ZERO coal was mined in Cali where in Alabama they employ around 100k people in the coal industry. So since 1933 millions of people have worked in coal mines in Alabama?

Not saying smoking is good for you, just saying it is not the laws that have helped. Because as stated above Cali had a lower rate even before all the laws/taxes.

would like to see weights and heart diseases comparison too.. :)

I've been to Alabama *shudder*

If you'd rather leave California so you can smoke a carton a day in Alabama...then you deserve lung cancer.

I read through this and I am amused

To draw a single correlation between CA and AL and say thats why AL has more cancer is pretty much retarded.

As a Libertarian I am with Sperbonzo here. It's my property and If I want to make my bar smoke free or smoking mandatory I have that right just as you have the right not to patronize it, plain and simple.

I dont need or want the government to protect me from myself.

In most states suicide is illegal that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard of what are they going to do incarcerate my dead body?

Id bet skin cancer rates are much higher in CA than they are in ME does that mean that the Maine legislature should take credit for having fewer citizens with skin cancer than CA?

This whole thing makes no sense

Cigs are not banned, just from public places. I don't care if someone smokes just don't do it around me. You make the same stupid argument that people do about guns.

i wish the governement had banned them before i developed my habit many years ago... on the e-cig now and feeling great, but the damage has been done...

i dont believe the government should intervene and tell us what to do, but with something so obvious as cigarettes, i cant understand how they are legal to sell

Now go make a Maitai and drink it in the tanning booth while munching on some
trans fat chips.

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