Rant about media coverage

[Stonecold54]

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Smoking increases the risk of cancer. More cancer raises insurance premiums by incurring health costs.
The government financially backs up big insurance companies and government money comes mostly from tax dollars (you and I).

This equates to society paying for a smoker's health costs from smoking a cigarette. The same logic can be applied to many illegal or regulated products.

If something is damaging to an individual, often enough it's directly or indirectly damaging to society. I'm sure this reasoning works for alcohol's and steroids' health risks.

well a few other things I believe in is that the Govt has no right to tax us nor give medical health care coverage so that would take care of that problem right there. people would smoke and if they get cancer they pay out of their own pocket for their bills. if I take steroids and get fucked up from it, I wouldn't put the burden on you, I would pay for it myself through private insurance.

[Puma]

This is an oxymoron - the government wants to limit smoking to scale back insurance premiums and tax dollars however they support (or at least enable) the tobacco industry and allow obesity to engorge society...

Yeah, and its not a very good argument for keeping juice illegal. They have no idea what the health effects of steroids are in comparison to some of the other drugs they have out there. And I firmly believe that if steroids were legal we would have less of a problem with obesity (because people would see some results from their efforts in the gym). I know that's a stretch in some ways, but from my personal experience, most people quit the gym not because "They look as good as they want to" but "Because nobody even knows I work out, I don't look any different".

I can't imagine someone giving it up if they get the attention that most of us on the board probably get today (probably because many of us are juiced). I can never go back, its just not an option for me. Why be fat and weak when you can have everyone turn their heads to get a better look at you when you walk in the room? Its just not worth it to me to eat like shit anymore because I like the results of the lifting too much. I feel that more people would have the same results if they were taking the right drugs to help them.

Puma

[Puma]

That's a BS argument anyway. People are still allowed to smoke, even though the govt pays an amazing amount for their healthcare. People are still allowed to drink, even though the # of drunk driving deaths/health care for alcholics is widely expensive. I just don't EVER see legalized steroids coming anywhere near the level of damage as either liquor or cigarettes. I honestly can't fathom it. I know over a dozen people who have died as a direct result of cigarettes and drinking. I don't know one person who has even been hospitilized for steroids. And I know a hell of a lot of juiced people.

Puma

well a few other things I believe in is that the Govt has no right to tax us nor give medical health care coverage so that would take care of that problem right there. people would smoke and if they get cancer they pay out of their own pocket for their bills. if I take steroids and get fucked up from it, I wouldn't put the burden on you, I would pay for it myself through private insurance.