Re: OT: smoking deaths

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:33:40 UTC, yankeebean <yankeebean@> opined:
> On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:10:54 GMT, "Fred Blau" <s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:

> >On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 20:48:21 UTC, inkleputDEL@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Deaths per year: Smoking: 400,000 <snip>
> It's easily explained: the ACS is reporting cancer deaths, as you
> might expect. The National Cancer Institute(NCI) who reports the
> higher fiqures of 440,000 deaths per year is reporting "tobacco
> related deaths" which includes not only lung cancer but also chronic
> lung diseases and cardiovascular diseases. See also:
> http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/tobacco/statisticssnapshot

And not all the 440,000 are smokers, of course; many merely live or
work in the proximity of smokers.

> So smoking causes a much larger number of American deaths than the
> subset of those smokers who get cancer. Smoking is in fact the
> greatest mortal threat to our society - far in excess of war, murder,
> drug overdose, car wrecks/drunk driving, fires, flu, etc. that fills
> the attention of our media.and those who are limited by that
> perspective. If the tobacco companies were an invading army they
> would do less damage but perhaps then get the battlefield justice they
> deserve.

Well put.

But this bothers some societies more than others. Here, for example,
more are smokers than in the US, expecially among young people and
Arabs. But as far as I have been able to see for myself, the French
and Germans are the world champions in this particular kind of
suicide. Entering an air terminal in those countries is a lot like
walkling into an ashtray. The natives there think this is normal.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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