Senate poised to vote on sweeping FDA tobacco rules

Ban it. It costs us all too much. It drives up health care costs for everyone. Too many hospital beds with lung cancer, asthma, emphysema, etc patients and many are poor and on the public dole. Even if they have insurance, we all pay for it. Our health care is already socialized... just too many administrators.

If a can of paint had the carcinogens of tobacco in it, it would be illegal.

So strange, click on the following link for some evidence that there may be some health benefits for smoking and nicotine.

http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/liars.ht...

Here's an excerpt from the above link:
Forces International
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CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONTINUING STUDIES ON SMOKING AND HEALTH
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Selected Studies
Compiled and Edited by Wanda Hamilton
The following selected studies are all listed in the CDC's bibliography on smoking and health for l984-85, with later studies appended. All abstracts quoted were written and submitted by the principal investigators of the studies. For many of the studies, the CDC bibliography listed the source of funding. Those listed as funded by the tobacco industry have been deliberately omitted from the compilation below.
The numbers appearing at the top left of each citation are the index numbers assigned by the Centers for Disease Control. For the sake of economy, I have not reproduced the entire abstract of each study, but have included only a summary of salient information and direct quotations from the original abstract. For ease of reference, I have categorized the studies under various headings such as "Smoking and Lung Cancer," "Smoking and Nicotine: Benefits," etc. A few studies appear under more than one heading.
Smoking and Lung Cancer | Smoking and Heart Disease | ETS and Heart Disease | Smoking and "Throat" Cancer | Smoking and Renal [Kidney] Cancer | ETS and Bladder Cancer | Smoking and Endometrial, Ovarian and Breast Cancer | Smoking and Cervical Cancer | Smoking and Pregnancy | Parental Smoking, ETS and Children | Nicotine and Smoking: Benefits
APPENDIX | ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
SMOKERS HAVE REDUCED RISKS OF ALZHEIMER'S AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Smoking and Lung Cancer
Though there seem to be strong links between smoking and lung cancer, anti-tobacco propaganda often infers that smoking is THE cause of lung cancer, with the implicit message that if smoking could be eliminated, so could lung cancer. This is, of course, false. Smoking is by no means the only risk factor for lung cancer, and in some occupations cigarette smoking appears actually to help protect against getting the disease. Lung cancer is acknowledged to be on the rise both in the U.S. and elsewhere despite the decline in cigarette smoking which began more than 25 years ago.
Further, lung cancer among nonsmokers seems to be increasing, while the rate of lung cancer among smokers is decreasing, thanks to the advent of filtered cigarettes, which nearly every study has shown decreases risk anywhere from 20% to 30%(only one such study is listed here).