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Bill O’Reilly — yeah, the right-wing gasbag on Fox News — claims<\/a> he was once offered a job modeling as a Marlboro Man back in the 1970s. (Good thing for Bill that he turned it down, because Marlboro Men tend to die<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Bill used this bombshell to rag on marijuana. He said that while he supports the government’s efforts to fight tobacco use, government — and society as a whole — is implicit in encouraging more marijuana use.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big marijuana advocate, but Billo is wrong for three very huge reasons — 1) tobacco kills 440,000 people a year, while marijuana kills ??? a year 2) tobacco is physically addicting for everyone who uses it, while only a small percentage of pot users become addicted (and it’s more a psychological addiction than physical) and 3) every study that has been done on the subject shows that pot does not cause lung cancer.<\/p>\n

I love this quote from Billo:<\/p>\n

Smoking marijuana is quite the opposite. That\u2019s on the rise, as pot use is considered cool in many circles, and above all it is political correct,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, guess what, man. It’s uptight squares like you ripping on pot that just makes it more cool. You know, they figured this stuff out in the 1970s, get with the times.<\/p>\n

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Bill O’Reilly 1979, studmuffin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course, what he’s really saying is liberals love pot but hate cigarettes. Again, read above, pot, for all of its negative issues (and I believe there are negatives to pot, again, I’m not a big advocate of it) is a) NOT killing 440,000 Americans a year, 2) NOT physically addictive like nicotine and 3) Does NOT cause lung cancer.<\/p>\n

So, it’s a stupid argument, even for Bill O’Reilly.<\/p>\n

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