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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This is just a reminder, the parallels between Trump and Hitler are many.

Trump hates drinking and smoking while Hitler also hated drinking and smoking.

If they represent what "sober" is, I'll take any and all drugs mainlined into my veins till the end of time please and thank you.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

I mean, Hitler's personal doctor administered opiates and amphetamines to him daily. Trump has also been suspected of using amphetamines and his habit of projection would seem to support that, given he claimed Biden was on "performance-enhancing drugs." So, yeah I wouldn't worry about that mainline, as we know Hitler wasn't sober and there's a fair chance Trump isn't either.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I will be sad to hear of your passing when you decide to inject one whole weed

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I will be sad to hear of your passing when you decide to inject one whole ~~weed~~ marijuana

FTFY

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Won't that just make people smoke more to get their nicotine hit?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

Probably but that has the side effect of additional tobacco tax money for states and the federal government. That's the key issue here and why they cracked down so hard on vaping while still allowing cigarettes to be sold at every corner store in the country.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It would still be positive for new smokers that never had the old high octane stuff.

Further, for smokers smoking more means increased costs to the smokers acting as an economic disincentive to continuing to smoke.

[–] Waveform@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The FDA says the proposed rule will apply to traditional cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, cigars and pipe tobacco.

Argh! I've been smoking pipe tobacco this whole time to save money and avoid additives. Why not force companies to stop adding dangerous and unnecessary chemicals to their products? And if they care about people's health and the burden on the healthcare industry so much, why not try actually fixing the broken healthcare/insurance system?

I may have to try growing my own tobacco.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Under President Biden, Zeller said the White House asked him to lay out a timeline for how a nicotine rule could be finalized by the end of 2024. Zeller said he delivered the plan in one of his last acts before retiring, and was not sure why the Biden administration failed to finalize the rule.

"I would not be forwarding this timeline to you, if I didn't believe in good conscience that it could be met, as long as clearance times could be sped up," Zeller recalled telling White House officials.

Didn't stop people from giving Biden credit for accomplishing something just a few days ago...

This is the danger of giving credit before anything is done, they get the credit and quit.