Kids these days, now we can't even store sex in a bool. And they want another float for gender! Back in my day we had one bit for each, and we liked it.

Wasn't it one for both, or is that too far back?

Probably too far back. We had the Kinsey scale in 1948, so that's a 0-7 for gender/sexual identity, and one bit for sex. Fits perfectly in a nibble.

Federal taxes on cigarettes went up 250% to pay for health care/SCHIP in the past 30 years or so. There is a pretty good correlation with smoking rates and cost of cigarettes. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.9...

Taxes do work, though demand for tobacco is relatively inelastic: http://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/meetings/dublin_demand_...

Those kids and their damn rock and roll :)

It's just this generation's search for identity and being different from the generation preceding it. For one generation it's edgy outfits, for another it's long hair and rock music, and I'm sure there will be a future one that will shock 'our' generation (idk what your generation is) even more, especially if it's our own kids who a few years ago were still just like us.

Please cut the outdated ignorant bigotry about gender and sexual orientation.

You were likely flagged for spouting gibberish from a troll account, and you will likely be flagged again for regurgitating it.

Please try to find something more productive to do with your time.

Why gibberish? Slightly out of context, terribly worded, troll-account, no linked sources(laziness/sloppiness on my part), ad-hoc out of context pieces of seemingly unrelated not universally agreed-upon information stitched together - OK I see your point. Anyway, most importantly, you are right about the last part, to rewrite that post in a correct way would take hours with limited to no desired effect(the focus is moving fast on HN), sorry for this unfortunate compromise