GOVERNMENT HAS SPENT $2 MILLION TO GET WIVES TO NAG THEIR HUSBANDS

Since 2012 the government has spent nearly $2 million on a campaign to get women to nag the men in their lives to quit using smokeless tobacco. The National Institutes of Health has sponsored a continuing grant for the Oregon Research Institute to “evaluate an innovative approach that encourages male smokeless tobacco users to quit by enlisting the support of their wives/partners, both to lead smokeless tobacco users to engage in treatment and to help them sustain abstinence.” Researchers will next conduct a randomized clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of the cessation program. The program is raising eyebrows among some who see the expenditures as wasteful and gender-pandering. “American women don’t need the federal government spending money to get us to nag our husbands to stop using tobacco, we do that just fine on our own,” said Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America.
* I think the government owes my wife a lot of money.
* Wives shouldn’t have to nag to get their way. That’s what withholding sex is for.
* Smokeless tobacco is so far down on the list of things wives nag about, how would they ever get around to it?
* They’d have to do it simultaneously while nagging about something else. “While I go on and on about you doing your share of the chores, read this note I jotted down about your chew.”
* I’ve got a solution for the gender-pandering. Balance it out. The wives can nag about the chew if the husbands can nag about the extra 20 pounds.
* I know what you’re thinking. “Extra 20 pounds? I WISH it was only 20!”
* The government is really doing this? Wow, overreaching much?
* It’d be funnier if we weren’t 18 trillion in debt.
* No, even if we had mountains of money lying around, this would still be aggravating.
* The Oregon Research Institute: Where grant money goes to die.