Resolved Question: Tobacco and Alcohol Death stats?

Can someone give me a reliable source of Tobacco and Alcohol annual death statistics? Thanks more

Voting Question: As 20 million illegal aliens go unpunished shouldn't 94 million Americans get a change in marijuana laws?

I'm not a user and support huge taxes (like taxes on tobacco) on marijuana for those that want to use it. But isn't in unequal under the law that marijuana law breakers are still prosecuted when illegally present aliens aren't? According to federal statistics, about 94 million Americans -- that's 40 percent of the U.S. population age 12 or older -- self-identify as having used cannabis at some point in their lives, and relatively few acknowledge having suffered significant deleterious health effects due to their use. America's public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it. It makes no sense to continue to treat nearly half of all Americans as criminals. http://www.alternet.org/rights/47815 more

Resolved Question: Should we do a better job of warning high school students that the habit one in five of them is picking up?

will probably kill them?http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/index.htm more

Voting Question: Cannabis info needed!! statistics, have a few questions about it...?

what is cannabis classed as, in terms of depressant, stimulant...? Also, how does cannabis affect your nervous system? Is it more dangerous than tobacco? which is most popular? do you have any statistics to prove this? which causes most deaths? Thanks if you can answer any of these questions! more

Resolved Question: what is the most recent statistics on the prevalence of tobacco use? (SMOKELESS AND SMOKING)?

It's for my health homework. I've been searching the web for the last few days and i just can't seem to find anything useful.i need to know the number of people in the U.S. that smoke and the number of people that chew (chewing tobacco). the internet isn't helping. i can't find a good source or a good statistic. the prevalence of tobacco use.. more

Resolved Question: Do you think I'm a Democrat or Republican?

ABORTION - I support it but not as a form of contraceptive, mainly if the woman has been raped, incest may die etc EUTHANASIA - I support it, I think it should be regulated though so people know what they are doing. IMMIGRATION - I think it should be heavily controlled only letting in the best people and all illegals and their children should be deported. GUN CONTROL - I support the constitution and think we should have the right to protect ourselves MARIJUANA - Marijuana is less dangerous than tobacco and alcohol so I think if they are legal it should be too DEATH PENALTY - I think mass murders and pedophiles should get the death penalty but most others should get long prison sentences. GAY MARRIAGE - I support it, we can add them to the divorce statistics lol GAY ADOPTION - I don't support it because I think the kids could get bullied for having two dads or two moms and I don't think that is fair. RELIGION - I think there should be no religion in politics and no government should force any religion to change, so if say the Catholic Church is against gay marriage I don't think they should be forced to marry them in the United States even though I support it. ENVIRONMENT - I want to work in conservation when I qualify from college, I think we should do all we can to protect the environment, I believe in climate change but I don't think its as bad as they make out and we can still slowly save the planet :) more

Resolved Question: Do we comprehend the disasters of the moment???????????

...the nurding home fire, the river in flood pouring over the sandbag levee, the airplane crash with fragments of burnt bodies scattered among the hunks of twisted metal, the grenade in the marketplace, the sinking ship. But how to grasp a thing that does not kill you today or tomorrow but slowly from the inside in twenty years. How to feel that a corporate or governmental choice means we bear twisted genes and our grandchildren will be stillborn if our children are very lucky. Slow death can not be photographed for the six oclock news. Its all statistical, the gross national product or the prime lending rate. Yet if our eyes saw in the right spectrum, how it would shine, lurid as magenta neon. If we could smell radiation like seeping gas, if we could sense it as heat, if we could hear it as a low ominous roar of the earth shifting, then we would not sit and be poisoned while industry spokesmen talk of acceptable millirems and ~O2 cancer per population thousand. We acquiesce at murder so long as it is slow, murder from asbestos dust, from tobacco, from lead in the water, from sulphur in the air, and fourteen years later statistics are printed on the rise in leukemia among children. We never see their faces. They never stand, those poisoned children together in a courtyard, and are gunned down by men in three-piece suits. The shipyard workers who built nuclear submarines, the soldiers who were marched into the Nevada desert to be tested by the H- bomb, the people who work in power plants, they die quietly years after in hospital wards- and not on the evening news. The soft spring rain floats down and the air is perfumed with pine and earth. Seedlings drink it in, robins sip it in puddles, you run in it and feel clean and strong, the spring rain blowing from the irradiated cloud Over the power plant. Radiation is oppression, the daily average kind, the kind youre almost used to and live with as the years abrade you, high blood pressure, ulcers, cramps, migraine, a hacking cough you take it inside and it becomes pain and you say, not They are killing me but I am sick now. Marge Piercy more

Resolved Question: Marijuana use In Canada?

I'm doing an Essay on why marijuana SHOULD be legalized in Canada. I have three main points; Crime rates due to the illegalization of marijuana (People in jail for possession, facts like like that. I'm having trouble finding some), Medicinal use of marijuana, and the worse affects that Tobacco and Alcohol have on you. Each point needs three categories. I'm having trouble defining (?) them all. I guess I just need some good statistics and such, like I said I'm having trouble find legitimate ones. Oh and btw, I don't smoke it, but I obviously don't oppose it if I'm writing about legalizing it =)Any statistical facts would be helpful. And im from B.C so i'm well aware of the fact that most people do it, but that woun't work in a debate essay =( more

Resolved Question: Which doctor would be informed about tobacco related issues?

What kind of doctor would be the best one to ask about tobacco related issues and statistics? more

Resolved Question: Does smoking cause cancer?

Not trying to light anyone's fire here. I have smoked on and off, currently smoking. I am just digging for information here. I have done research to try and personally resolve this issue of whether or not smoking causes cancer or any other illness. On the one hand, I see where people try to cite statistics where cancer has declined while smoking has declined, but I cannot find anything that says there is any tested proof of that beyond statistics. I find it hard to believe that a cancerous cell just falls off a tobacco leaf and into the the body, yet I can see where smoking may very easily create all the necessary conditions for cancer to develop. It is kind of technicality for me to dare to say I don't know if I believe cancer is directly caused by smoking, but rather perhaps smoking creates other conditions in the body that are necessary for cancer and maybe even other illnesses to develop when they otherwise would not. I often have to think that while anti-smokers are motivated to go out and create an argument that has no foundation by trying to draw the comparison between smoking and cancer and other illnesses, smokers are guilty on an entirely different level. I have to wonder how smoking got started, and how it reinvented itself in various ways. I kind of have to think the first smokers probably did not smoke tobacco, and they probably consulted someone they felt was knowledgeable as to what plants or leaves might or might not be poisonous. I also feel it may be likely the first smokers were after something other than a habit, but perhaps some kind of drug to "supplement" their religious rituals. In that sense, the circumstances may be that smoking was started again and again by various tribes that were not trying to create a habit, but were trying to find a drug they felt stimulated their spirituality from a chemical effect. In the same sense, I also feel those people, although they have been primitive, most likely did make sure they did not smoke anything thing that may be poisonous. It is funny how we think we are advanced in our science, and while without knowing everything we need to know about it just choose to get our kicks of something that was probably not invented to be a habit. Any info you have or might stumble or upon would be appreciated. more

Resolved Question: What should I do for my econ thesis?

I'm currently preparing to do a honors thesis this to finish up my undergrad work. I have two ideas that I'm going to present to the department chair next week. Any help you could give about which one to do (or to give me a better idea because they are kind of lame) would be appreciated. I am graduating in December and plan on going to law school but have been thinking of getting a dual degree in Econ. It would be ideal if I could do a thesis for that could get me in a good grad school because I'm a long shot for the econ programs at the schools where I'm applying to law school. Here are excerpts from my proposals: 1) My research question is how has the Maryland tobacco buyout affected the agricultural economy and total economy of regions where tobacco has historically been grown. This thesis would be much more empirically driven and will compare agricultural statistics before the buyout was announced, soon after, and presently (about 10 years later). Some important things I would like to determine would be how the use of land has changed, how the labor of former tobacco farmers has changed, and how these changes have affected the economies of localities where many people were tobacco farmers before the buyout. The Independent research would involve gathering the data and studying techniques on how to apply the research and finding theories to explain the data. My main concern about this thesis is the possibility that the number of growers of tobacco will be too small to be discernible through normal data avenues. If that turns out to be the case, a sample of tobacco growers who took the buyout must be taken to get meaningful data. 2) My central research question is how can university housing departments create incentives to meet their objectives and at what cost. Realistic objectives will be obtained from HRL professional staff. First, I would describe how economic theory predicts policy enforcement creates incentives for residents in university housing, using our university as an example, and how residents respond to the incentives created. Part of this would be using economic theory to describe how residents attempt to maximize utility given the restrictions in place. I would then highlight some other interesting policy enforcement systems and put them in terms of economic theory. The second part of the thesis will be to use economic theory to make recommendations on how to achieve different specific objectives of housing departments. In the actual writing of the thesis, this may be built into the first part, not necessarily a separate section. The objective of these first two parts will be to use economic theory to build a model describing university housing policy. Finally, the third part of the thesis will try to test the results I get from applying economic theory to university housing departments empirically. This will be the main part of the research for the thesis because the other two will simply be application of economic theory to a particular situation. An example of some of the things that I would test would be things like the expected cost of breaking policy by surveying for the expected probability of getting caught and the expected fine received. more

Resolved Question: Why are you against responsible cannabis use by adults?

As a cannabis activist, I make it a point to mention that the majority of adult cannabis users do not support minors using drugs. In the legalization efforts we all clearly agree that there should be strict age limits when it comes to legal cannabis consumption. In fact, statistics state that it's easier for many teens in certain areas to get a hold of cannabis than alcohol. Simply put, this is because of prohibition because, as I've heard quoted many times, "Drug dealers don't ask for an I.D." The term "controlled substance" is a misnomer, because prohibition does the exact opposite. Just because it makes it a punishable offense does not mean that the substance is being controlled. The truth of the matter is that prohibiting cannabis is forfeiting all control over to the black market. So, now that we agree kids shouldn't use drugs, why are you opposed to adults using cannabis? Certainly, it's safer than alcohol, a drug that is destructive to ones self and to society. It's safer than tobacco, as that accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the U.S. alone, each year. In fact, many people view caffeine as a daily part of our lives and is marketed to kids, yet it's a harmful and addicting drug. So, it's interesting that cannabis prohibition is operated under the guise of public safety when we are so accepting to the other, much more harmful, substances out there.Ted : Cannabis prices currently reflect black market inflation. After legalization, even if they tax it twice as much as tobacco it will still be cheaper than the prices we are seeing now. Good to see some level headed responses in here though.me?: 1. You can't judge an entire group of people based off of the worst case scenario. Just because you have seen people who made bad life choices doesn't mean everyone who uses cannabis will. 2. In a study of different countries with differing drug policies, drug policy itself has the least impact on actual drug usage. What this means is that, after legalization we will see a small spike in consumption (most likely due to excitement as well as more people being open about usage), but soon after it will level out. 3. I've personally seen many people in many professions lead successful lives even though they use cannabis on a regular/semi-regular basis. My wife and I each own and operate our own businesses, as well. So, I'd ask that you please not generalize and stereotype. more

Resolved Question: What classes should I take next year?

So far, I think Im doing well, I hate taking tests, but its ok. I want to be a healthcare lawyer, if not that, a tobacco executive. I have 10 classes (5 fall, 5 spring) left before I graduate with my Bachelors in Political Science. Here is what I am taking next year...... Statistics A Microeconomics Macroeconomics Comparative Politics The Supreme Court My Seminar in Political Science Cinema-just for fun!! Medical Ethics Leaves room for 2 more classes. I was thinking Public Speaking, but I dont see the use. Help me out here!!! Another Cinema Class Public Health Class Public Speaking History Elective Sociology Elective Anthropology Elec. Bio Elec Chem Elec Physics Elec Or a criminal justice elective? more

Resolved Question: Project about breast cancer?

I have to make a powerpoint presentation about the transmission/risk factors and epidemiology of breast cancer. For now, I am just making an outline of what I would like to put in the slides themselves. Here is what I have so far: 1) What are the risk factors for breast cancer? A. Lifestyle (i.e. childbearing, diet, alcohol and tobacco use, age, use of oral contraceptives,gender, race, breastfeeding) B. Family history, genetic causes (BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, p53 gene) 2) Disease Statistics A. Cases and deaths based on gender B. Female breast cancer rates sorted by age (with chart) C. Incidence and death rates in females sorted by state (with graphs) D. Incidences and deaths in females sorted by race and ethnicity (with graphs) What else can I include? What exactly is epidemiology, and would the statistics I put fall under that topic? more

Resolved Question: i need help finding info. in the blank spaces which is statistics and How to live with lung cancer also ......?

read and tell me how it is so far I. Intro. Lung cancer was uncommon before the invention of tobacco. Lung cancer became known during the year of 1761. But in the year of 1810 lung cancer became father discovered.Fritz Lickint recognized the link between smoking and lung cancer. Lung cancer was mainly found in men because of the smoking of cigars. Then people began to notice cigarettes, Cigarettes were/are a major lung cancer _________ . So many treatments became discovered to cure lung cancer. II. Definition 1 Lung cancer is a carcinoma that develops in the epithelial cells that form the interior lining to the lungs. The airways get the most exposure to inhaled pollutants, thus most people who get lung cancer are smokers. Lung cancer is not just one disease. There are many types of cancer that form in the lungs most of which you can only see through a microscope. The most common cancer of the lungs is epidermis. It is also known as squamous carcinoma because its cells look like a flat surface called a squamous cell. This cancer produces keratin, a substance found in skin and hair, which can be seen in a tumor. Squamous carcinoma is more common in smokers because it develops in the bronchi and spreads by invading local tissues, than to the lymph nodes and into the blood. Large - cell carcinoma is a tumor that is fairly larger than other types. They don’t form keratin but they are common in smokers. They develop in the central or peripheral part of the lungs and the lymph glands. Small cell carcinoma tumors are small and fragile. They are divided into groups by their shapes. The term “oat cell carcinoma” is used to develop in smokers and usually in the central part of the lung. They spread by the lymph lands and into the blood stream early. This type of tumors can only be seen through an electron microscope on high magnification. III. Causes Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer may also be the most tragic cancer because in most cases, it might have been prevented -- smoking causes 87% of lung cancer cases. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are proven cancer-causing substances, or carcinogens. Smoking cigars or pipes also increases the risk of lung cancer. Many of the chemicals in tobacco smoke also affect the nonsmoker inhaling the smoke, making "secondhand smoking" another important cause of lung cancer. It is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths. IV. Treatment Treatment depends on the type of lung cancer, the size of the tumor, the location of the tumor, the stage of illness, the age of the patient, and the overall health of the patient. Surgery is performed to remove the tumor if there is no chance that the cancer has spread. If the disease has spread, then treatment will often include radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Radiation therapy is based on the use of ionizing radiation to destroy cancerous cells. Chemotherapy is treatment of a disease using drugs that directly poison the disease organism. Early stage non-small cell lung cancers are best treated surgically and later stage non-small cell lung cancers are best treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of the two. For small cell lung cancers, chemotherapy by itself or with radiation therapy is used instead of surgery. V. STATISTICS on men women and kids VI. How to live with lung cancer VII. Conclusion In conclusion the best way to prevent lung cancer is to not smoke or be around people who do. People should not start smoking, and those who already smoke should quit. Everyone should avoid breathing in other people's smoke. VIII. References "Lung, Cancer". 4 November 1998. http://www.evnet.com/fnadoc/lung.html. "Adults cancer help in the uk". http://mdweb. Bham.ac.uk/cancerhelp/public/specific/lung /indx.html. "Cancer". The New Illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia. 1959. Laszio, John. Understanding Cancer. New York, New York: Harper and Row. 1984. Holleb, Arthur. Cancer Book. Garden city, New York: Madrona Publishing Inc., 1984. more

Voting Question: i need help on my lung cancer research paper?

this is what i got so far: I. Introduction II. Definition 1 Lung cancer is a carcinoma that develops in the epithelial cells that form the interior lining to the lungs. The airways get the most exposure to inhaled pollutants, thus most people who get lung cancer are smokers. Lung cancer is not just one disease. There are many types of cancer that form in the lungs most of which you can only see through a microscope. The most common cancer of the lungs is epidermis. It is also known as squamous carcinoma because its cells look like a flat surface called a squamous cell. This cancer produces keratin, a substance found in skin and hair, which can be seen in a tumor. Squamous carcinoma is more common in smokers because it develops in the bronchi and spreads by invading local tissues, than to the lymph nodes and into the blood. Large - cell carcinoma is a tumor that is fairly larger than other types. They don’t form keratin but they are common in smokers. They develop in the central or peripheral part of the lungs and the lymph glands. Small cell carcinoma tumors are small and fragile. They are divided into groups by their shapes. The term “oat cell carcinoma” is used to develop in smokers and usually in the central part of the lung. They spread by the lymph glands and into the blood stream early. This type of tumors can only be seen through an electron microscope on high magnification. III. Causes Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer. Lung cancer may also be the most tragic cancer because in most cases, it might have been prevented -- 87% of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking. Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are pr oven cancer-causing substances, or carcinogens. Smoking cigars or pipes also increases the risk of lung cancer. Many of the chemicals in tobacco smoke also affect the nonsmoker inhaling the smoke, making "secondhand smoking" another important cause of lung cancer. It is responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths. IV. Treatment Treatment depends on the type of lung cancer, the size of the tumor, the location of the tumor, the stage of illness, the age of the patient, and the overall health of the patient. Surgery is performed to remove the tumor if there is no chance that the cancer has spread. If the disease has spread, then treatment will often include radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Radiation therapy is based on the use of ionizing radiation to destroy cancerous cells. Chemotherapy is treatment of a disease using drugs that directly poison the disease organism. Early stage non-small cell lung cancers are best treated surgically and later stage non-small cell lung cancers are best treated with either chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of the two. For small cell lung cancers, chemotherapy by itself or with radiation therapy is used instead of surgery. V. Conclusion VI. References "Lung, Cancer". 4 November 1998. http://www.evnet.com/fnadoc/lung.html. "Adults cancer help in the uk". http://mdweb. bham.ac.uk/cancerhelp/public/specific/lung /indx.html. "Cancer". the New Illustrated Medical and Health Encyclopedia. 1959. Laszio, John. Understanding Cancer. New York, New York: Harper and Row. 1984. Holleb, Arthur. Cancer Book. Gardencity, New York: Madrona Publishing Inc., 1984. I need to turn it into a 3 full long page 12 font doubled space paper the curriculum is : COVER PAGE 3 PAGES FULL ..12 FONT WHAT IS LUNG CANCER ? HOW DO U GET IT HOW CAN U TREAT IT STATISTICS IN AMERICA:MEN WOMEN AND KIDS SUGGESTS HOW 2 LIVE LYFE WITH IT REFERENCE PAGE ! more

Resolved Question: Tobacco represents the single most preventable cause of disease and death in the world today.?

Now explain to me why this is funded by the government, and why marijuana is illegal instead of tobacco. Lets start with some statistics: http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30 Compare tobacco deaths/year with marijuana deaths/year... stunning? There are valid resources there... And some documentation: http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/reprint/65/4/303.pdf With that said... Logic here would be to outlaw tobacco and legalize marijuana in its place. (following the notion that cigarettes are only used to get a buzz). Marijuana is less harmful on the lungs. It does not contain nicotine- the most addicting substance in cigarettes. It does the opposite of tobacco when it comes to cancer. People don't die from Marijuana- if you smoke too much, your simply going to fall asleep really high. Tobacco- you can easily die from. Why is society so backwards?Yes Miss Dementia- I live in the US. If you check out my first link you will see that you are very close. Obesity (listed there as "poor diet and physical activity") is 2nd to tobacco. Im curious if this is what outsiders think of when they think of Americans?- Fat and Lazy?@ZP Who cares that 440,000 people are dying every year from something that can be fully stopped by themselves? Whats that indirectly called again? o ya suicide........ And whats it called when you (the government) help people with a habbit that kills? O ya... Genocide!@T Bone That really wasnt my point. Believe me- nothing has stopped me from my 420 activities. I dont smoke cigs cuz its proven to kill. Re- visit my first link. Then flip that list there upside down. It seems Americans are focusing on the least harmful things and not the big killers- tobacco, alcohol, obesity... more

Resolved Question: Why are we lying to our kids about marijuana?

Lets face it: "Reefer Madness" is just wrong. Im 21 and have been lied to about marijuana since day 1 (the government, propaganda, parents.. etc.) I started smoking after HS roughly and have sucessfully completed my bachelors degree in simply 5 semesters of college. I got a 3.0 cumulative GPA and led a normal social life (college was in California ;)). I have interned at Pfizer, and am currently a supervisor at a global corporation computer helpdesk (right out of college). Im supervising people twice my age- who have never touched pot! I am obviously a living example of how Americans have been so decieved into thinking that Marijuana only does you harm. But if you have a little self control, and can get your sh!t done before getting high, whats the big deal? I mean... tobacco kills 440,000 Americans/year and is funded by the government. (look these statistics up, I did not make them up.) And alcohol fucks alot of families over.... I believe that marijuana should be legalized and controlled (21 or older to posses an oz or less). My reasoning: see above, and when I was 16, if i was curious about it, I could have easily gotten marijuana faster than alcohol..... and I went to a Christian High school... kids in public school, its even worse. So why is this not up for discussion adults? more

Resolved Question: Would you support a Fat Tax on fatty food? (Debate)?

Statistics for the USA show that obesity causes 300,000 deaths each year and costs the economy $117 billion per year in additional health-care expenses. A New York congressmen a has introduced the idea of a fat tax. It's the second leading cause of death in the U.S. He believes that a tax on fatty, high calories, and junk food would coax people to eat healthy, balanced, and nutritional meals. Therefore reduce the obesity figures. Similar suggestions have also appeared in the UK, Australia and Canada. This tax could also be used to pay for healthcare reform. *BQ (if you feel you have to effort):If we know that high fatty enriched foods will kill us, and cigarettes will kill us, whats the difference between putting high tax on fatty foods similar to a tax that has been placed on tobacco products? more

Resolved Question: Why do people want marijuana legalized?

I don't understand this at all. Who could want this stuff legalized? Marijuana smokers are 6 times more likely to get lung cancer than tobacco smokers, and marijuana is highly addictive (look at the statistics, more teens are in treatment for marijuana addiction that all other drugs combined). According to studies done by Dr. Gabriel G. Nahas, marijuana can cause irreversible brain damage and destroys brain cells. Why would anyone want this horrible narcotic to be legal? more

Resolved Question: Afghan Opium Kills More People Than Any Other Drug On the Planet?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091021/wl_mcclatchy/3338284 Last time I checked, smoking tobacco kills over 400,000 people in the United States annually. That's not even taking into account the people who die from tobacco altogether (the chewers and the snorters). How can the United Nations claim that Opium kills more people than any other drug on the planet? Are they even taking into account legally prescribed drugs, or do they not count as drugs on account of them being manufactured by corporations and all? Seems to me that the UN must be smoking something to publish a report when the statistics don't add up. more

Resolved Question: Were you aware of these statistics?

Annual causes of deaths in the USA: Tobacco: 435,000 Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity: 365,000 Alcohol: 85,000 Microbial Agents: 75,000 Toxic Agents: 55,000 Motor Vehicle Crashes: 26,347 Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs: 32,000 Suicide: 30,622 Incidents Involving Firearms: 29,000 Homicide: 20,308 Sexual Behaviors: 20,000 All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect: 17,000 Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin: 7,600 Lightning Strikes: 44 Shark Attacks: 1 Marijuana: 0 more

Resolved Question: Presentation:prevention on smoking tobacco...help please?

I have this project due and my topic is "prevention on smoking tobacco". I need three statistics about smoking tobacco. Could you give me some, please? Because I don't know what my teacher means by that. Also, what would be your "explanation or definition" for smoking tobacco? And if you know any local, state, and national helping resources/agencies (contact information) that would be helpful too. Thanks!! more

Resolved Question: this is a very specific question about smoking/cancer.?

I have been a smoker for 3 years. I have only been an actual smoker for about 1 and a half years (about a pack a day, but no more, usually less). im quitting, but im paranoid. i am 15 years old. what are the chances of me getting any form of cancer.? ive asked a similar question, but this one is very specific, mainly opinionated, but if you can find any statistics of teen smokers, that would be much appreciated. i realize there is no real way of telling, and that there is a slim chance of someone as young as myself getting cancer/diseases/etc. from tobacco, but i know a few people that have died from smoking. again, i am quitting, so please no "quit and shut up" i have been to the doctor's twice in the past week. one in the hospital, and one my family doctor. i had 2 chest x-rays done because i had a left-sided spontaneous pneumothorax, so i'm not worried about lung cancer, because i'm certain they would have spotted that. i'm more concerned about throat, oral, etc. thank you for your time and patience. more

Resolved Question: Please explain how to work the formula. (statistics)?

A. In your college campus, 30% of the students use tobacco in some form. In your statistics class of 40 students, the probability of finding at least 15 students who use tobacco is ? B. In a given year, the average annual salary of a NFL football player was $189,000 with a standard deviation of $20,500. If a sample of 50 players was taken, then probability that the sample mean will be $192,000 or more is? more

Voting Question: Did you know the Partnership for a Drug free America was funded by alcohol and tobacco companies?

"PDFA was the subject of criticism when it was revealed by CyCot ts Cotts of the Village Voice that their federal tax returns showed that they had received several million dollars worth of funding from major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations including American Brands (Jim Beam whiskey), Philip Morris (Marlboro and Virginia Slims cigarettes, Miller bTannhauserheuser Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch beer), R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Salem, Winston cigarettes), as well as pharmaceutical firms Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Company and Proctor & Gamble; an issue which has been linked to the organization's lack of media discouraging the misuse of legal drugs. From 1997 it has discontinued any fiscal association with tobacco and alcohol suppliers, although it still is in receipt of donations from pharmaceutical producers[2]. Several oPS Ass PSAs have been criticized for being misleading, sometimes deliberately. Most notably, it was forced to discontinue one which purportedly showed a flat-lining EEG read-out of a drug user's brain, which in fact it was not at all. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana NOR ML(NORML) also called into question another PSA, which linked statistics relating to violent crime and marijuana use. counsel lingelling organizations involved with outreach, have also feltPDF A'sPhard linerdline stance against all illegal drugs is unhelpful to their work, believingPD FAt PDFA tends to demonize narcotics use beyond what observation would support and thus can result in a loss of trust by young people when their personal observations of drug use fail to agree with the image that PDFA puts forth." Can someone clarify if this article from wiki is true. If it is this program is even more jacked up and misleading then i thought. The proof that our government is corrupt is obvious just by looking at the war on drugs. How can they continue to push chemicals like alcohol and tobacco like its apple pie yet when it comes to a marijuana PLANT, Which is proven to be healthier then coffee, remains illegal and worst, is frowned upon by our brainwashed society.LEGALIZE MARIJUANA OR CRIMINALIZE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO and coffee more

Resolved Question: What justice is there in making marijuana illegal?

Washington, DC: Police arrested 847,864 persons for marijuana violations in 2008.Marijuana arrests now comprised one-half (49.8 percent) of all drug arrests reported in the United States. Of those charged with marijuana violations, approximately 89 percent, 754,224 Americans were charged with possession only.The remaining 93,640 individuals were charged with “sale/manufacture,” a category that includes all cultivation offenses, even those where the marijuana was being grown for personal or medical use. Commenting on the 2008 figures, NORML Director Allen St. Pierre said: “Federal statistics released just last week indicate that larger percentages of Americans are using cannabis at the same time that police are arresting a near-record number of Americans for pot-related offenses. Present enforcement policies are costing American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and having no impact on marijuana availability or marijuana use in this country. It is time to end this failed policy and replace prohibition with a policy of marijuana regulation, taxation, and education.” NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano added, “According to a just-released Rasmussen poll, a majority of American adults believe, correctly, that marijuana is less harmful than booze. The public has it right; the law has it wrong.” Myth: Marijuana Can Cause Permanent Mental Illness. *Fact: There is no convincing scientific evidence that marijuana causes psychological damage or mental illness in either teenagers or adults. Some marijuana users experience psychological distress following marijuana ingestion, which may include feelings of panic, anxiety, and paranoia. Such experiences can be frightening, but the effects are temporary. With very large doses, marijuana can cause temporary toxic psychosis. This occurs rarely, and almost always when marijuana is eaten rather than smoked. Marijuana does not cause profound changes in people's behavior. Myth: Marijuana is Highly Addictive. *Fact: Most people who smoke marijuana smoke it only occasionally. A small minority of Americans - less than 1 percent - smoke marijuana on a daily basis. An even smaller minority develop a dependence on marijuana. Some people who smoke marijuana heavily and frequently stop without difficulty. Myth: Marijuana is More Damaging to the Lungs Than Tobacco. *Fact: Moderate smoking of marijuana appears to pose minimal danger to the lungs. Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains a number of irritants and carcinogens. But marijuana users typically smoke much less often than tobacco smokers, and over time, inhale much less smoke. As a result, the risk of serious lung damage should be lower in marijuana smokers. There have been no reports of lung cancer related solely to marijuana. Myth: Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value. *Fact: Marijuana has been shown to be effective in reducing the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. There is also appreciable evidence that marijuana reduces muscle spasticity in patients with neurological disorders. Myth: Marijuana is a Gateway Drug. *Fact: Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. What the gateway theory presents as a causal explanation is a statistic association between common and uncommon drugs, an association that changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease in prevalence. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD, are likely to have also used marijuana. Most marijuana users never use any other illegal drug. Indeed, for the large majority of people, marijuana is a terminus rather than a gateway drug. Myth: Marijuana Kills Brain Cells. *Fact: None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damage in humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose use. An early study reported brain damage in rhesus monkeys after six months exposure to high concentrations of marijuana smoke. In a recent, more carefully conducted study, researchers found no evidence of brain abnormality in monkeys that were forced to inhale the equivalent of four to five marijuana cigarettes every day for a year. The claim that marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific study. Myth: Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Damages the Fetus. *Fact: Studies of newborns, infants, and children show no consistent physical, developmental, or cognitive deficits related to prenatal marijuana exposure. Marijuana had no reliable impact on birth size, length of gestation, neurological development, or the occurrence of physical abnormalities. Now tell me what justice is in making marijuana illegal. more

Resolved Question: Is there a way to easily escape belonging?

to the millions who will die this year due to tobacco smoking? That is, without quitting smoking. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090825/us_nm/us_cancer_tobacco What do you think of these ideas? 1.Jump from the top floor of any tall building when I feel the onset of lung cancer? 2. Bribe the coroner to say "Death by Firing Squad" just so my death will defeat the statistics? 3. Twist the arm of the statisticians to lower down the death rate by tobacco use? more

Resolved Question: How much is too much?

This is a tobacco question. please don't refer me to the surgeon general's recent 900 page release, i've actually spent a couple of months going over it, and it doesn't answer the question. Too much of anything will kill you. we know this already. yes, if i consume my body weight in saccharine every day for a month, i will die. this does not mean that saccharine in modest doses causes cancer, nor even has any effect on the body in micro-doses. so exactly what dosage of (cigarettes/nicotine) over what period of time is likely to cause the problems everyone keeps pointing to? how likely is it? how high does consumption have to be to give a 100% probability of cancer? (don't bother with statistics for copd or asthma. when you consider that smoking is required for either diagnosis, it only means that the diagnosis is dependent on the behavior, not lab values or symptoms.)I’m sorry for using such a sweeping statement, the truth is, the diagnostic criteria is not the same in all western countries. As Wilson, et al, pointed out in the article: http://www.chestjournal.org/content/128/4/2035.abstract “COPD prevalence varied depending on the criteria used” And “The burden of COPD due to smoking can only be determined from population-attributable risk (PAR) studies.” Which have not been conducted. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0954611105000831 suggests that in the UK smoking is a prerequisite for the diagnosis, and http://www.ahrq.gov/Clinic/uspstf08/copd/copdrs.htm does not list smoking as a diagnostic criteria, but does place tobacco users in the high risk assessment category, in the same article that it points out: “History and clinical examination are not accurate predictors of airflow limitation”and if you want to go to asthma, consider http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S104727970700378X wherein the researchers begin their paper with the statement: “Evidence remains inconclusive as to whether environmental tobacco smoke is a risk factor” And the diagnostic criteria here vary from country to country as well. One Australian paper I’ve read (sorry, haven’t got the online reference) clearly stated “if the subject has all of these symptoms and lives in an environment free from tobacco use, the clinician should strongly consider an alternative diagnosis” my problem with this, is that here, smoking becomes the critical factor in the diagnosis. But if you want to include COPD and Asthma, please do. How much tobacco exposure over what period of time will give a 100% chance of developing these problems? How about 50%?my concern with the tobacco debate is not one of health, but one of legislation. anti-tobacco legislation has been expanding exponentially over the last 30 years, and every expansion claims that it is due to associated 'health problems,' but nobody can seem to produce the 'evidence' which is the supposed justification for that legislation. every law passed disempowers the people as it expands the power of the government. i for one, am sick of seeing my freedoms (such as the freedom of choice) being struck down one by one. more

Resolved Question: Why is smoking legal? It should be a Class A drug!?

I know the answer to this is most likely down to two things - Money from tax which funds the NHS and because it is so widespread and accepted all over the globe. However, smoking should be a class A drug! Smoking has a direct influence in the number or deaths caused by cancers due to the carcinogens in cigarette,which source [1] also proves. Deaths in males cased by lung cancer increased from 10 per 100,000 to 185 or so per 180,000 within 60 years, which is in pattern with the cigarette consumption per person per year [Consumption]. This consumption was at 4000 cigarettes per person per year. However source [2] shows us that by using the statistics given, the average smoker smokes about a pack per day. As a pack is often 20 cigarettes that means (20 * 365) = 7300 cigarettes are smoked by the average smoker every year. This is 1.75 times more than the peak of the graph in source [1] at about 4200 per year. There is a 20 year lag in the graph between the increase in smokers and the increase in deaths caused by lung cancer. So, the government of not just the UK, but every god damned nation has statistics every where that prove the effects of smoking not only effect those who smoke but those around them too. The government probably makes a lot of money from cigarette tax which pays for part of the NHS. They claim they need the money for the NHS but the only reason they need it is to treat the very smokers whose tax came from the >drugs< that are killing them. So if nobody smoked we wouldn`t need so much money in the system anyway. So why isn`t the governement doing something about it. If a 16 year old with little resources apart from basic statistics, some intelligence and common sense can come to this resolution how on earth can a government not work it out. Tobacco (and most definately alcohol too) would be class A drugs if they were introduced now, so why can it not be removed completely. It has an immediate short term effect which is critical to the body. It has a long term effect which is critical to the body. It is an addictive substance. It causes harm to those other than those taking it. What idiot of a stupid government cannot work it out and do something about it! What can be done to make it illegal? Quality of life, health, wealth and general; well being will be improved dramatically if smoking was illegal, however why isn`t the government making it illegal? What is everyones views and opinions on this and what do you think can be done? Sources - [1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Cancer_smoking_lung_cancer_correlation_from_NIH.svg/326px-Cancer_smoking_lung_cancer_correlation_from_NIH.svg.png [2]http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-cigarettes-does-an-average-smoker-smoke-in-one-dayFair comments. But why should people have the right to harm themselves whils;t harming others around them almost as badly?Good comments. What makes it sound it sound like hitler? That was a dictatorship that rose to power by the factors of fear, threats and loss of hope in a corrupt country. This is a question with no threats, no fear that looks for hope in othere peoples eyes. You need to learn your history...Keep your views coming people! Also Hitler had a lack of opposition after his change of tactics in Mein Kamf and censorship once he had become chancellor....... (soz, didn`t finish sentence) ... and I am asking people to give their opinions to this =p lol more

Resolved Question: Where can I find statistics on the use of tobacco and drugs among pregnant women in Arkansas and Oklahoma?

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Resolved Question: Anti-pot legalization people please read?

Can you please tell me why you are against legalization? Some of you might say the typical "Pot's bad for you" line, but here's proof otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_the_harm_of_drugs_(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg ...and if you don't trust statistics and you believe that Marijuana has 3 times as many carcinogens as tobacco like Above the Influence, D.A.R.E., etc., commercials tell you, think of this: Most potheads on average smoke about 1 joint a week, whereas some tobacco smokers smoke several packs a day. Even in this case, tobacco would still be worse for you because those who smoke it smoke it alot more often. And noone can argue that nicotine is not more addicting than marijuana. Also, there are other ways to consume pot other than through smoking that don't impose the risk of lung cancer, such as eating (although this produces smaller effects), and using a vaporizer, which removes alot of the harmful chemicals that are normally found in the smoke. From the above, I have already established that pot is not as bad for you as tobacco, yet it is illegal. Why? This is because Congress doesn't make laws in concern of your well-being. If they did, both tobacco and alcohol would be illegal. The main reason pot is still illegal today is because it was illegalized along time ago due to foolish reasons and Congress has simply ignored the issue and focused on other things. Some of you may argue that it would be devastating to have people smoking pot while driving. So why don't we just illegalize it while driving, like we do alcohol, and also make it illegal to smoke in public places? Some of you might say that whether or not pot is legal doesn't and will not affect you, so why should you care? The truth is, your taxpayer is money is going towards arrests and jailtime for potheads every year, so it is indeed affecting you, if not directly. Some might say that the social costs of marijuana would outweight the benefits from tax revenue saved because after all, tax revenue from alcohol only covers 10% of its social costs. The truth is, marijuana would come with much lower social costs if we were to only legalize it for use in one's home. First of all, alcohol is served in many public places such as bars, baseball games, etc., and many people drive under the influence only because they have no other way of getting home. If we were to only legalize marijuana for home use, we wouldn't have nearly as much of this problem. Also, a fraction of alcohol's social costs includes arresting drunk husbands that beat their wives, domestic violence, etc., and we wouldn't have this problem with pot, which does not cause people to become violent. Besides, thousands of people smoke pot already anyways, so who has the law stopped? It doesn't serve as a deterrant to keep people from smoking, it just punishes them after they do it, and how does that help anyone? Please don't paint me as a liberal. I am independent and don't follow political labels. And I'm not ranting, I just want to change people's minds by proving them wrong. What do you have to say to this?Unka Dano, I have a pothead friend who is an electrical engineer.It's all about personal responsibility. Look at what alcohol has done to some people. And yet there are some very successful people that drink in moderation.dwndubois, the effects of pot can last for up to six hours. It's not possible to smoke very many joints a week without finding a job and getting money to pay for it in the first place.People are going to use it whether or not its legal wyomugs, it's not just as simple as "allow" or "don't allow".dwndubois, I doubt you would know as you already seem uneducated on the issue. You're under the impression that if it suddenly became legal, people everywhere would start smoking it and anarchy would occur. People already smoke it. We would just spend less money prosecuting innocent people and the innocent people wouldn't go paranoid worrying about the cops showing up.n b, why do you want the government telling everyone what to do?Also n b, the fact that car crashes result from marijuana use even when it's illegal is proof that the law doesn't serve as a deterrant to this so-called "crime". And why should you be forced to breathe second-hand smoke if we only legalize it for use in one's home?C-K again, you must've been high when making that observation, because pot is EXPENSIVE and you have to find time to eat, sleep and get a job to pay for all that sh*t...and besides, that wasn't the only point in my argument that pot should be legal. more

Resolved Question: Is it a coincidence that Obama is black and that menthol cigarettes are the only type now allowed?

>>NOTICE: I am not racist. Polls and statistics show that blacks smoke more menthols than any other ethnicity. This is simply pure statistical fact. I would like to know why Obama would allow menthol cigarettes to be sold and consumed by and to Americans, if not because he enjoys them personally? Isn't that almost a dictator-like attitude? Shouldn't all flavors be illegal? I have a number of African-American friends who I respect and care for. Please do not deem this racist or in support of tobacco use, as it is neither. This question is simply an observation on the possible abuses committed by the United States government, ones which may serve towards its dictator's personal wishes rather than those of the people. Furthermore, please do not respond with "tobacco is disgusting", etc. as those are not relevant statements. This question is not about tobacco but, again, about the preferences of a dictator being pushed on a nation's people. Finally, I would like to make it clear than I am not affiliated with any political party, etc.<< more

Resolved Question: What companies lie with statistics to make themselves more profitable?

I know that companies lie all the time about their statistics to make themselves more competitive, but who are these companies and how do you find out about how they misuse statistics? For instance, I know most alcohol and tobacco companies lie, but where do you find the source of the lies? more

Resolved Question: I do not know what this econmics question is aksing?

I do not know what this question is asking Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index Tables: http://stats.bls.gov/cpi/ SCROLL down the page to Consumer Price Index and CLICK on HTML. Then, CLICK on Table 1: Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U):. For the most recent month, find the value of the CPI Price Index Number Unadjusted for each of the following: Food and Beverages Housing New Vehicles Medical Care - Professional Services Education books and supplies Personal Computers and Peripheral Services Tobacco and smoking products What was the base year? (NOTE: The base year has a price index number equal to 100.) Summarize your findings. In doing so, compare the price index values. Which of the above has increased in price the most since the base year? Which has increased the least? Did any decrease? (NOTE: The base year has a price index number equal to 100. If the number is GREATER than 100, prices have gone UP since the base year. If the number is SMALLER than 100, prices have gone DOWN since the base year.) Why do you think this is so? more

Resolved Question: Why is it that the FDA is hitting Tobacco so hard, and not touching Alcohol?

The government is hitting to basically "push" tobacco out of America, I've looked at statistics, and there are numerous deaths associated with it... but what about Alcohol? We hear almost daily (in the Dallas area) of another drunk driver killing someone.. Why are they so stuck on tobacco when Alcohol is killing too?? oh.. and I'm not a smoker.. I just want to know why they are smoldering one and not touching the other.. more

Resolved Question: Reasons for tobacco(smoking) being bad for teengaers.?

I have to write an essay on the worst drug amongst teenagers. I picked tobacco . what are some reasons or statistics that i could prove my point as to why its th e worst drug ??\ Thanks Muchly .xox more

Resolved Question: Why is it the governments job to warn children about pot and the parents job to warn about alcohol and tobacco?

Why is it the governments job to warn children about pot and the parents job to warn about alcohol and tobacco? Given: Alcohol and Tobacco is the leading cause of death in children. Given: Alcohol and Tobacco are just as illegal as pot at the initial age peer pressure will be tempting. Given: Pot has killed little to no one, even in the rare cases the statistics can't even be compared. Now tell me why is the governments job to warn about pot which they can't tax and tell me why it's the parents job to warn about the taxable products of alcohol and tobacco. The BIG GIVEN BEING: they're all illegal when you're a pre-teen/early teen. Please tell mePleas explain the lack of anti-alcohol anti-smoking commercials, yet the abundence of above the influence don't smoke pot commercials. Given: Alcohol and Tobacco are the leading cause of death in children. Someone explain this backwords logic. more

Resolved Question: Is GDP the right measure of success of the economy or Government? Should we look for better measures?

Our Ministers talk endlessly on GDP growth. But it completely fails to capture the quality of growth. Unless undesirable activities are eliminated from the compilation of statistics, GDP will remain a dubious measure. Example, Look at the booming liquor and tobacco industry in India They contibute in no small measure to GDP. This will further spur diseases and encourage hospitals, medical colleges, drug companies etc to grow. More GDP! Also, it fails to recognise the effect of GDP growth on family life. Today, there is no housemaker, as both are working till late and family is in shambles.In earlier days, only one would go and the other would run the household. So,while GDP grows by the salaries of both, the negative impact on family life, which is a cost is ignored. Also, our Govts areencouraging all kinds of polluting industries just to have growth, What are the longterm implications for health, children, society? Hightime, the intelligentsia protested and we find a way to weigh in the costs too. more

Resolved Question: Statistics distribution?

Suppose you are interested in the distribution of the concentration of benzene in a specific brand of cigar. Assume the distribution is approximately normal with unknown mean and standard deviation. Furthermore you know that the mean concentration of benzene in cigarettes is 81 μg/g tobacco and you want to know if the mean concentration of benzene in cigars is equal to that in cigarettes. A random sample of nine cigars has mean benzene concentration of =152 μg/g and standard deviation 9 μg/g. Perform an appropriate hypothesis test at the 0.01 level of significance. I got a through d i just need help with the rest.....Please help me and show me the work e.Ho : ____________ f.Ha : ____________ g.Degrees of freedom (if appropriate) = _____________ h.Critical value(s) = __________ i.Test statistic = __________ j.Approximate P-value = ___________ k.Decision: _____________________________ l.Interpret this decision: __________________________ ________________________________________________________ l. Appropriate Confidence Interval for u = (________, ________) m. Does µo lie in the confidence interval?_____________ more

Resolved Question: What are the chances that smokeless tobacco will cause mouth cancer?

I do chew once in a while I do a pouch maybe once or twice a day. I did use long cut straight for about a year about as often as I am today. I did quit for a year and got back into it but I am using the new camel snus now and I assume that its less potent considering I get way less of a buzz from it. I am not asking if this will cause mouth cancer, but I want to know about how long it takes on average to get mouth cancer from it. Basically I want statistics of the chances and the average time it takes to get cancer for those who did get it. more

Resolved Question: how does the government justify the outlawing of marijuana?

from everything that I've heard concerning legal and illegal drugs and other substances such as alcohol, and all the statistics i've seen and read about, the governments priorities on this issue just don't seem straight, and i'm really confused. first of all, alcohol and tobacco kill much more people annually than marijuana. I've heard of very few cases of someone passing away from the direct use of marijuana, yet people can get alcohol poisoning and die from that. people die from smoking cigarettes way to often. but both of those activities (drinking and smoking) are legal second of all, marijuana has been proven to have medical benefits. in some places it has even been legalized for medical purposes, and this makes sense. but again, tobacco products, and as far as i know, alcohol have not been proven to be beneficial in any way to health. third, I'm really curious as to why marijuana was outlawed to begin with. if anyone could clear up those three main topics of confusion for me, that would be greatly appreciated :) more

Resolved Question: Who finances the anti-smoking truth commercials?

You know the ones with the body bags and sing alongs and all that. Why don't the just interview people dieing of lung cancer and heart disease? Or show the genocidal statistics around the world, 5.4MIL per year and 1BIL people at the close of this century. I wouldn't be surprised if big tobacco pays for the ads or if nicoderm and others are making a ton of money from it, since smoking is almost impossible to quit for most.Lets keep the topic on the real drug please, Big Tobacco, thanks. more

Resolved Question: What do you think of policy makers wanting to tax smokeless cigarettes just like regular cigs?

Did you see that article that was on the yahoo homepage.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax the third line from the bottom: "But smoking control advocates such as Lindblom say tobacco taxes should be even higher. "There's a lot of room to go after cigars and smokeless," he said. "We are certainly hopeful that health care reform will include some more increases." all of you people who said they are only going after smokers because it affects other people in the form of secondhand smoke are wrong. Just as patriots feared, the government is now using its power to decide what is best for other people too. First it was regular cigaretts, then other tobacco products, some states have the junk food tax, what next, are they going to send a government agent to my house to make sure I go to the gym and have good health so I don't put a burden on the health care system, can they hold my hand when I cross the street too??? People who are so happy to see a pack of cigaretts go from $3 to $8 in the past 10 years because of governent intervention failed to see the conseseqences. You only focus on the statistics of the number of smokers decreasing, but lack the vision to see the poltical consequences. F you more

Resolved Question: Poll: Are you against marijuana legalization?

If you are against marijuana, are you also against Alcohol and Cigarettes being legal? TOBACCO ........................ 400,000 ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000 ALL LEGAL DRUGS .............20,000 ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ..........15,000 CAFFEINE .........................2,000 ASPIRIN ...........................500 MARIJUANA ...................... 0 20 Million innocent people have been locked up. 65% of the Drug Cartels revenue is Marijuana The statistics speak for themselves.Dr.House, in my eyes smoking Marijuana is not a crime hence the 20 million innocent people. Tax dollars are being wasted locking up regular citizens when they should focus on real criminals. more

Resolved Question: TEENS: do you think weed should be legalized?

Myth: Marijuana is a gateway drug--it leads to harder drugs. Fact: The U.S. government's own statistics show that over 75 percent of all Americans who use marijuana never use harder drugs. The gateway-drug theory is derived by using blatantly-flawed logic. Using such blatantly-flawed logic, alcohol should be considered the gateway drug because most cocaine and heroin addicts began their drug use with beer or wine--not marijuana. Myth: Marijuana is addicting. Fact: Marijuana is not physically addicting. Medical studies rank marijuana as less habit forming than caffeine. The legal drugs of tobacco (nicotine) and alcohol can be as addicting as heroin or cocaine, but marijuana is one of the least habit forming substances known. In my opinion, I do think it should be legal. What are your opinions? and why?These ARE scientific facts. where are yours? more

Resolved Question: Do you think marijuana should be legalized?

Confirmed deaths from various drugs per year (source: just about every set of statistics I've ever heard): Tobacco - over 400,000 Alcohol - over 80,000 Marijuana - 0 (obviously there probably ARE cannabis related deaths- just no confirmed ones) Drug lords get MOST of their funding from marijuana sales. These organizations use that money to fund gang armies to fight other drug lord's groups effecting innocents. If marijuana was legal you could tax it and would get rid of a significant percent of people in the prison system. Saving the state huge amounts of money. Oh, and last time I asked this question a lot of idiots told me to stop doing so many drugs. The reason this is idiotic is that I have "sXe" -which stands for straight edge (which means I don't smoke, drink, use drugs, or have promiscuous sex)- is in my name for Christ's sake.Ayers Pfleger & Wright R Nuts!: that's why I specifically said that there are probably unconfirmed deaths- but there are no deaths CONFIRMED to have been caused by cannabis use more

Resolved Question: Has anyone Seen that Anti-Weed Commercial?

the one where a guy smokes weed, and wins like 8 gold medals in the olympics? or the one where those people smoke weed, and write the best music hits, and become famous? and the one where the guy smokes weed, and founded a computer company, and becomes the richest guy in the world? OH and i cant find the one where the guy smokes weed and becomes the "President of the United States" either? can someone tell me where to find them? PLEASE ? because im tired of this random shit THAT DOESNT EVEN GIVE STATISTICS, why is that by the way? How come they show statistics, and REAL testimonies to tobacco commercials, about people with cancer, or a dead loved one. but not to weed ones? my real question is WHY IS IT ILLEGAL???? *******************actually look up stats before you answer, that its unhealthy, addictive, and can kill you********************************By Random SH*T, i mean the ones with a talking dog deflated girl guy in giant bud for 30 years etc. more

Resolved Question: My sister's essay? Could you edit it to make it "sparkle" [is the word she used!?

The use of tobacco from the teens in the US is way too towering. The NHIS 2003 National Center for Health Statistics says that in the US 43.3% of the people are smokers, 19.2% women and 24.1% men. Why are the numbers up so high? I say because the pressure on the young teens is incredibly high. When our teens are pressured to use drugs they usually do not consider about how it will influence their life in the future, they are concerned about what others would think of them. If I were pressured to use tobacco, I would think about how is it going to affect my body, how is this going to affect my life, how will it affect others around me, how will I feel? If everyone would think about these questions, we would have this crisis off our shoulders. If we were to stop selling tobacco products, we would have less cancer, sickness, and health issues. Although we would be taking away money from the tobacco companies and from the doctors that treat the tobacco users but, we would put the danger down of losing lives. If we make all tobacco products against the law, then we have another drug we have to keep others away from like crack/cocaine, marijuana, inhalants, ecstasy, methamphetamine/meth, LSD, and heroin. We would have more drug dealers and lawbreakers if this were to happen. Although we would have less lives at risk. The American Lung Association said; that almost 6,000 teens under the age of 18 start smoking, 2,000 of these become regular smokers. If we were to take away tobacco products we would have those high numbers gone. Would that be nice? How do we get our teens out of the atmosphere of tobacco use? One, they should have a good environment at home, a place where there is time with family and parents that are in touch with their children’s lives. Two, they should have a safe environment at school too. If the teachers know what the children are going through with friends, there would be less difficulty there. Third, when our teens are just out with their friends, they should feel okay saying “no” to their friends when tempted to use tobacco products. The health of our new generation is at risk too. With Second-Hand-Smoke, children are not even smoking and the smokers are killing them. We have to stop this. How? We can start helping more people who smoke by setting up more treatment centers to help those who want to live a smoke-free life. We need to stop this addiction to nicotine. All these people are dying because they made wrong choice when they were young. We can talk to teenagers more about how treacherous this is. What if everyone had a goal in life, to never use or be around anyone who is using tobacco products? Our world would have one more thing off its list of troubles. I have a goal in life. It is to NEVER use or touch tobacco products. I will not even be around with people who use tobacco, that way I will never have to worry about Second-Hand Smoke, or being tempted to use tobacco. We need a change. thanks!!! :D more

Resolved Question: I am having trouble understanding this statistics questions?

In the 108th congress, the senate consists of 51 republicans , 48 demoracts, and 1 independent. If a lobbyist for the tobacco industry randomly selects three different senators, what is the probability that they are all republicans? Am I using combination?That makes sense, cause you decrease the pool, when you take one out. more