05-19-2016, 11:37 PM
Back to smoking. High rates of smoking imply greater use of public funds on the treatment of tobacco-related diseases. Kentucky is at the top, so if you live there you end up subsidizing the bad decision particularly commonplace in Kentucky -- smoking. Kentucky has the highest rate of adult smoking of all the states. Utah is at the bottom -- and as I recall, far below the second-;lowest state in tobacco use (California).
So if you don't like paying for the smoking habit, you might prefer Utah to Kentucky. Utah either gets to charge lower taxes or provide better and higher-quality services. Thus if I have "Mormon lungs" without being a Mormon, I might prefer Utah over Kentucky.
So if you don't like paying for the smoking habit, you might prefer Utah to Kentucky. Utah either gets to charge lower taxes or provide better and higher-quality services. Thus if I have "Mormon lungs" without being a Mormon, I might prefer Utah over Kentucky.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.