Category: Public Health
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Reduce tobacco use by encouraging the use of alternatives
For decades, tobacco has held the distinction of being the leading preventable cause of death in our country. Lawmakers have rightfully worked on legislation meant to discourage consumption of tobacco products, but one unwanted side-effect of the crusade against tobacco has been that the crusade now is now against much safer alternatives to tobacco such…
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End The Drug War:
The prohibition against drugs, and the resulting War on Drugs have been abject failures, leading to the deaths of over 1.1 million Americans between 2003 and 2023, countless arrests, millions imprisoned, at enormous economic cost, while resulting in enormous cash flows to the criminal and terrorist organization that dominate the drug trade. Something has to…