Yeah, I came across that one. I didn’t reference it because I didn’t see where that mentions cumulative lifetime costs which is not the same as annual cost. I’m arguing that the lower life expectancy offsets those increased costs, because then healthcare isn’t paying for someone in old age. At this time, I still disagree with you.
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Your argument makes me wonder are you a proponent of banning fast-food and alcohol since they are also argued to create a “public health burden?”

I disagree but I relent from calling you wrong until I find the research paper I found 15 years ago on the subject.

but not a bigger drain than old-age

Once again your trying to characterize all experiences by one that’s relatively uncommon, -yeah, you’re slinging bullshit

Reading all these nauseating comments from people that want to ban tobacco makes me want a cigarette, and I haven’t smoked in 8 years.

I smoked for 15 years and that take is bullshit, or at least not as common among smokers as you think it is.

If healthcare costs are the concern then they definitely should allow it since the shorter life-expectancy offsets the high cost of care later in life.

There is no official “active policy” at the national level that I’m aware of. -As for unofficial policy, that varies from one municipality to the next, and from one state to the next. Is the Singaporean policy of executing cannabis traffickers not an official national policy carried out uniformly across the country?

if you’re putting officially written and sanctioned government executions in writing up against the unofficial unsanctioned killings not in writing, I’d be more scared of what the government has written down in policy as there is no possible alternative.

There is no written policy at the national level that you speak of that I’m aware of. -As for unofficial, unwritten policy then that varies from one municipality to the next as well as from one state to another. Is the Singaporean policy of executing cannabis traffickers not a national policy carried out uniformly across the country?

I don’t see what schoolkids parents has to do with a government sanctioned execution of a cannabis trafficker.

not really relevant to the topic at hand.

the article doesn’t say anything about the schoolkids POV on the dead traffickers or maybe you should just stay on topic

the monthly massacres aren’t government policy. executing a cannabis trafficker is.

Hurray Socialist party is #1 party! Go. Team. Win!

They don’t know who the communists are, though. They think they’re the democrats.

that IS what “living paycheck to paycheck” means.

it’s not that getting the piece of paper is enough as much as it has become a minimum standard for gaining jobs that frankly-shouldn’t require it. The guy that has “some college experience” looks the same in the eyes of the employer as the guy who never went to college, because they don’t have a piece of paper.

I’ve already spent more than 4 years in college with little to show for it. If speed-running college to get that piece of paper at the end is what it takes. more power to them.