| 1. | 6/11/2008 11:41:00 AM | This is a difficult and more complex problem, we have other equally high public health issues that involve personal behavior that we do not regulate |
| 2. | 6/11/2008 12:41:00 PM | Ban advertising and raise taxes |
| 3. | 6/11/2008 5:14:00 PM | Convince people to not start smoking and to stop if they are already smokers |
| 4. | 6/11/2008 8:17:00 PM | Suspend medicare/ medicaid coverage to smokers |
| 5. | 6/12/2008 12:27:00 AM | fund research on better stop-smoking drugs |
| 6. | 6/12/2008 12:58:00 AM | The government should either ban this lethal product (and put up with the black market), or shut up and pay up. The states should permit health insurance companies to charge patients who smoke a higher premium for their insurance product than they charge for patients who do not smoke. This is a better smoking deterent than taxation. The states permit higher premiums on life insurance products for smokers than for non-smokers, why not for health insurance? Why should healthy non-smokers subsidized the health insurance premiums for irresponsible persons who continue to smoke despite the well known increased health risk? Why should their risk behavior be subsidized? |
| 7. | 6/12/2008 2:03:00 AM | If you really research this issue the stats are incorrect |
| 8. | 6/12/2008 3:59:00 AM | Emphasize patient education and ways to quit smoking |
| 9. | 6/12/2008 4:37:00 AM | Why don't you ban fast food? Oh yeah, congress has protected them with the personal responsibility in food act -- no torm reform for us though |
| 10. | 6/23/2008 12:49:00 PM | Cigarette smokers ought to pay their share of insurance expenditures for such health related issues. |
| 11. | 6/23/2008 3:00:00 PM | It saves more than $100 Billion in retirement costs |
| 12. | 6/23/2008 6:03:00 PM | and Ban the advertising and marketing of all tobacco products |
| 13. | 6/24/2008 3:02:00 AM | Patients who smoke and practice other unhealthy lifestyle habits should pay three times as much for health insurance as those who don't. End of problem. |
| 14. | 6/24/2008 4:27:00 AM | tobacco company should pay medicare |
| 15. | 6/24/2008 7:54:00 AM | Send out drug reps to every household who smokes and then have Congress penalize the household member who allowed a drug rep to influence their decision. |
| 16. | 6/25/2008 2:28:00 AM | tax increase goes COMPLETELY to fund medicare and social securtiy |
| 17. | 6/26/2008 2:07:00 AM | By continuing to discourage use via campaigns targeted at kids and |
| 18. | 6/26/2008 2:26:00 AM | By continuing to discourage use via campaigns targeted at kids and |