Year: 2022

AUSTRALIAN DEAD SMOKERS ARE REVENUE LOSS. "Apart from the costs of treatment of smoking-associated diseases, tobacco abuse also reduces revenue to government from income tax, duties on other goods and other indirect taxes. This is because people who smoke tend to leave the workforce earlier. Further, many smokers die prematurely." http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/17-2-the-costs-of-smoking View in LinkedIn

AUSTRALIA CALCULATES NET GAIN. "Even after these adjustments, in 2004–05 tobacco tax revenue exceeded tobacco-attributable expenses borne by the public sector by more than $3.5 billion. Of this surplus, $2.7 billion accrued to the Commonwealth and about $800 million to state and territory governments." At best, a dubious proposition, at odds with all other country reports. http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/17-2-the-costs-of-smoking View in LinkedIn

CASTING DOUBT. "A study detailed in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine confirms what opponents of tobacco litigation said all along — the government makes money off of smokers, and could spend more if enough of them quit." http://lnkd.in/dsKPmv3 View in LinkedIn

$5 BILLION/YEAR MEDICAID LOSSES. "According to this estimate by the CDC, those costs run about $22 billion a year, or 11% of total state Medicaid expenditures. State and local tobacco tax revenues, meanwhile, run $17 billion a year, according to this estimate." (Costs of smoking). http://lnkd.in/dsKPmv3 View in LinkedIn

THE CIGARETTE ADDITIVE STORY is rather gobsmacking (excuse the English phrase). The sheer cynical ingenuity of educated brains figuring out how to candy-coat poison is a worthy read in human futility and self-destruction. Read the following blogs, and learn what you probably knew nothing about. View in LinkedIn

MODERN CIGARETTES = 10% ADDITIVES. "More additives have been introduced, and current cigarettes may contain up to 10 per cent additives by weight. Some of these additives may make addiction to tobacco as a source of nicotine more likely. They may affect addictiveness of the product or simply make smoking more attractive." http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/tobacco/en/ View in LinkedIn

OVER 4,000 CHEMICALS IN TOBACCO. "There are over 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke and at least 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer. The list of 599 additives approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes is something every smoker should see." http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/Cigarette-Ingredients.html View in LinkedIn

OVER 4,000 CHEMICALS IN TOBACCO. "Submitted by the five major American cigarette companies to the Dept. of Health and Human Services in April of 1994, this list of ingredients had long been kept a secret." http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/Cigarette-Ingredients.html View in LinkedIn

CHEMICALS IN TOBACCO. "While these ingredients are approved as additives for foods, they were not tested by burning them, and it is the burning of many of these substances which changes ." http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/Cigarette-Ingredients.html View in LinkedIn

CHEMICALS IN TOBACCO. Including: cyanides (poison), ammonia (toilet cleaner), methane (sewer gas), arsenic (poison), toluene (industrial solvent), hexamine (BBQ lighter), cadmium (batteries), DDT (insecticide), formaldehyde (entombing agent), and urea (urine). http://www.tricountycessation.org/tobaccofacts/Cigarette-Ingredients.html View in LinkedIn