According to the Harvard Society for Risk Analysis, roughly half of all the people smoking today, who continue to smoke, will die because of it.
Each year, tobacco use kills more Americans than motor vehicle crashes, murder, suicide, alcohol, drug abuse, AIDS, and fire combined and is the single largest preventable cause of death.
So stop doing it!
Agreed — war-on-smoking!
You mean war on freedom? I personally feel smoking is quite dumb but who am I to tell other people what they can and cannot do? If I was going to try and force my opinion on others I would start a war on obesity, but who am I to tell people not to eat theirself to death. Plus I dunno about you guys but I would rather die from smoking than to be murdered, kill myself, overdose on drugs, get aids, or die in a fire. I mean any way you look at it these smokers have lived longer than all these other people and didnt go out instantly and unexpected. If you use the data in the same way this study did you could also state facts like: Quitting smoking today increases your chance of death by murder by __% etc. Or Roughly 50% of smokers will not die from smoking. I love educational facts, but not when they are manipulated and arranged to promote propaganda
so many parents will leave their children behind because of this.
…and they leave a trail of trouble for the rest of us…increased polluted air, piles of cigarette ashes disposed of in various places, money pulled from tax payers’ hard earned funds, and the list goes on and on long after they’re gone.