Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tobacco. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2025

RFK Jr gets a nicotine fix during Senate testimony

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Yeah, that's what we want to see in our next Secretary of Health. Ciga-reetes, and heroin, and wild, wild Olivia Nuzzis, they'll dri...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

How did Democrat women end up like this?

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Biden administration delays menthol ban again as election threatens to go uhh . . . up in smoke

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The Biden administration has once again delayed banning menthol cigarettes, infuriating officials of public health groups who say the produc...
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Racist FDA is going to ban menthol cigarettes

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I never thought I'd admit that there is, in fact, systemic racism in America, but there it is. What's next, fried chicken and waterm...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Absence of non-East Asian coronavirus fatalities so far makes some wonder if there ever will be any

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Time will tell. There are considerations other than genetic racial predisposition or vulnerability to infection, however. As the Ch...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Clinton-Lewinsky brand cigars will get you every time

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Liberal Michigan's mentally disordered legalize marijuana, then turn around and outlaw flavored e-cigs

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Michigan becomes first state to ban sales of flavored e-cigarettes
Thursday, November 15, 2018

13 million young adults 18-29 use marijuana but the FDA's Scott Gottlieb is shocked, shocked I tell you, by 3.6 million young vapers

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This administration, like the rest of this country, is completely effed up. US orders restriction on e-cigarette sales; youth use sur...
Monday, November 12, 2018

The world upside down: FDA to ban menthol in cigarettes as 10 states legalize recreational marijuana

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Threat of a looming menthol cigarette ban weighs on tobacco stocks : FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb plans to announce this week t...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

War on cigarettes but utter capitulation on pot

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Friday, July 21, 2017

China per capita cigarette consumption is 114% higher than US

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The Chicoms consume about 4.7 cigarettes per day per capita, about 7.1 packs a month, despite recent attempts to tax the habit out of exi...
Sunday, June 4, 2017

34 lyin' cheatin' Muslim convenience store owners and a guy named "Dale" indicted for conspiracy

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From the story here : A federal grand jury has indicted 35 store owners on federal conspiracy charges for trafficking contraband cigar...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Bring back waterboarding, Mad Dog Mattis can go have his beer and a cigarette

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James E. Mitchell, here : It is understandable that Gen. Mattis would say he never found waterboarding useful, because no one in the m...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

No surprise: National Health Interview Survey finds just 2.4% of respondents, WHO WERE MUCH SICKER ON AVERAGE, were lesbian, gay and bi

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Except the story never does the math to show how small a minority is LGBT, and never once mentions rampant sexually transmitted diseases a...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Stephen Moore tells some whoppers: Income was FALLING long before the 2013 increase in the capital gains tax rate

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From Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, here : "When Mr. Obama entered office the capital gains and dividend tax was 15 ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Is Obama's Interminable Recourse To Racism Charges Marijuana-Induced Paranoia?

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Obama recently blamed the sudden drop in his popularity on racism in the country, a surprisingly paranoid response from someone who has won ...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Obama thinks he has achievements, which must mean he is suffering a psychosis

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From the long story in The New Yorker, here , by image-accommodating biographer David Remnick: As Obama ticked off a list of first-term achi...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

The Economy is NOT Improving: 3rd Estimate of Real GDP Falls to 1.8 Percent from 2.0 for Q3 2011

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What a joke the news is today. GDP is revised down and all you hear on the news is Ho! Ho! Ho! Q2 GDP was 1.3 percent, and Q1 0.4 percen...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Federal Revenues Came From Tariffs and Land Sales in First Half of 1800s, From Tariffs and Excises in Second Half

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A largely forgotten fact when discussing the history and meaning of US tax policy. Gary M. Anderson and Dolores T. Martin examined the role ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Explaining Property Taxes Then and Now

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Critical listeners to recent remarks I made here on The Newsmaker Show with Kevin Doran will have wished that I had done a better job of ex...