Toxicity of Aspartame

[mrRuckus]

Please. The cost of healthcare far outweighs any revenue from cigarette taxation. The government would LOVE for cigarette companies to be put out of business. Why do you think they're so heavily regulated? The only reason they're still around is because cigarette companies have been around for so long - too many people are addicted to completely outlaw smoking.

If there was even a murmur of outlawing cigarettes the tobacco companies would be lining the pockets of congress and those peeps would die down quickly.

 

[mrRuckus]

Second, having gone through and acquired my BS for now, I know that forced, classroom study is slow, overly technical, time consuming, and a controlled form of disseminating information that limits the students creativity and appears to push science and education as God. I have the utmost respect for people who realize what they are, but reading 1 book or 2, or having a degree does not confer intelligence, expertise, or even replace experience.

I took a year off of college and i learned more in that year by reading and practicing in my field in my spare time than i did in about 3 years of college.

School is just so slow and doesn't even bother to teach a lot of the core fundamentals. I look at some of the people at my job nowadays and it's like the equivalent of a don juan looking at an afc. These people never got to see the light and are walking around woefully ignorant of things they should know to be at the top of their game. Sure, they know a lot about some things but some fundamentals are sorely missing so much so that if i'm talking to them about some work we're doing a lot of the time i just get these blank looks like i'm speaking jibberish and just don't get the big picture --- on FUNDAMENTAL topics of our profession/topic of study!... because they focused only on what school told them.

 

[mrRuckus]

The government (who is supposed to be working for us) loves smokers because of the tax they are willing to pay on cigarettes.

The only time people (not organizations) are wrong is when they're brainwashed by organizations and society, and we've all been there.

It's like the lottery... a tax on the stupid.