Zach Lahn

On the elected side of politicians, both sides have been silent on this completely.

and then they'll give excuses like alcohol rates, or they'll give excuses like radon, or they'll say, we need to have a greater tax on cigarettes.

It's like, this is literally... This is happening right now in Iowa.

And I'm like saying to people, cigarettes have an inelastic demand curve.

Meaning, when you tax cigarettes, you're just taking more money because they're an addictive product and they're going to continue using them.

Meanwhile, Nevada has one of the highest smoking rates in the United States and one of the lowest cancer rates.

This is about, again, coming back to being willing to tell the truth, even if it means somebody tells me that they're gonna destroy me.

Even if it means they're gonna come out and attack me or my family or whatever it is.

This is what I knew I was getting into.

It's why this conversation is so important.

Because the voters are talking about this.

The people are talking about it.

You know, right now in Iowa, we have the world's largest nitrate removal system on our water supply in Des Moines.

Meaning, from the runoff that comes off of farm fields, I could talk deeply about what's happening there, but the nitrogen that's ending up from fertilizer in our streams and rivers is getting to our major population center

And it's so much that we have the largest one in the world to remove nitrates.

Jeez.

And often it can't keep up, meaning they have to, like, put notices in that you can't water your lawn because you're stressing the system too much because we can't filter these chemicals out fast enough.

Yes, this is that.

That happened last summer in Iowa.

I mean, our population's just around 3 million.