Posts Tagged Tobacco
Cigarette Tax on Tobacco
Cigarette tax on tobacco and its effects on local economies and health care costs.
Local and federal governments attempt to increase sources of income in a bad economic atmosphere around the world. A fashionable and frequent plan of action is to increase the tax on tobacco products.
The tax on tobacco harms the lower class and working class people more because they proportionately are more inclined to be smokers.
Raising the cigarette tax does not cut down on health care expenditures. The majority of people using tobacco products are addicted to smoking no matter what they costs. The promotion and use of quit smoking products would do more to deter the use of tobacco products.
Increasing the cigarette tax increases the crime rate for black markets for distributing the products. It encourages crossing borders to leave the government jurisdiction imposing the tax to shop for tobacco plus other products. This not only cuts the tax dollars collected but reduces sales to consumers inside and outside the district.
Reducing smokers does not cut back on health care costs to the government. Smokers typically endure aggressive cancers before they get to retirement age. In comparison, non-smokers live into their eighties consuming social security benefits and health care costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Effects Of Smoking ? E-Cigarettes Versus Tobacco Cigarettes
E-cigarettes are the new up and coming product. What is so special about E-cigarettes? I was curious so I did some research and this is what I found out. E-cigarettes smoke like real cigarettes with none of the disgusting side effects. E-cigarettes are becoming the alternative to smoking real cigarettes.
Did you know that there are 599 additives in a tobacco cigarette, and that is not the worst part. The burning of these additives changes their chemical compounds. The burning of a cigarette while smoking produces over 4,000 chemical compounds, of which many are toxic and/or carcinogenic. Not to mention the smoke that you inhale, which contains carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen cyanide, and ammonia, all of which are devastating to your health. 43 known carcinogens are in the smoke that you breathe and share with others around you.
The E-cigarette has no tobacco, smoke, or combustion involved in its operation; therefore, no burned chemicals. E-cigarettes contain 20 ingredients, which are used in our food, health, and beauty products. They have about the same amount of TSNAs (tobacco specific nitrosamines) as in FDA approved Nicotine Replacement Therapy products. Read the rest of this entry »