By the way, while losing ground in some of the wealthier countries, tobacco companies have been quite aggressive in bringing misery, death and addiction to poorer countries.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion ... 55518.htmlhttp://www.thewip.net/talk/2011/03/toba ... _up_i.htmlhttp://www.globalissues.org/article/533/tobaccoQuote:
Tobacco and smoking have a number of negative effects:
•Tobacco smoking kills
•Tobacco exacerbates poverty
•Tobacco contributes to world hunger by diverting prime land away from food production
•Tobacco production damages the environment
•Tobacco reduces economic productivity
•While the Tobacco industry may employ people, this can be considered an example of “wasted labor”, capital and resources.
-Lots of drugs including alcohol have a number of negative effects
-smoking cigarettes contributes to health conditions that can lead to death...so it's a factor in some peoples death but hardly the only one I imagine.
-Woah, hold on a minute what is to say the land they use for tobacco would actually be used for food if it wasn't for the tobacco? the truth is whoever buys the land would get to choose what to do with it, there is no garantee they would use it for growing food.
-I smoke cigarettes that are made in the U.S mostly, and are produced in places that don't cause any more damage than any other factories. I don't doubt the bigger tobacco comapanies don't care much for the environment or anything, but I prefer additive free tobacco anyways
-Also why is it wasted production and all that, there's only a demand for cigarettes because people are willing to buy them, if no one was then I am sure cigarette manufacturing would stop as there would be no consumers.
When governments and organizations have attempted to control tobacco (for example, where it is used, or how it is advertised), the tobacco industry uses its enormous resources to derail or weaken laws and agreements.
Big tobacco corporations behave like other large corporations?.......who would have guessed.
The world’s premier health organization, the World Health Organization (WHO) is quite blunt about the impacts of tobacco and smoking:
•Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world.•It is currently responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults
•It is the leading preventable causes of all deaths
•It kills Tobacco up to half of its regular users.
•In 2005, tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths (1 every 6 seconds)
•If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 8 million deaths each year by 2030
•Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
•At current trends up to one billion will die in the 21st century.
They should really learn the difference between causation and contribution, I don't doubt that smoking cigarettes can contribute to health conditions that could relate in death. To claim cigarettes alone kill people is inaccurate....there are likely to be other factors including genetic pre-disposition for health conditions smoking contributes to, amount smoked there is probably some difference in a pack or more a day for 10 years and a couple cigarettes a day for 10 years for instance, also there is all kinds of disgusting crap in the air besides cigarette smoke.
How is it the leading preventable cause of all deaths? first we went to it causes death, now it causes all deaths?
Also I believe either way one billion will die in the 21st century regardless, life kills you know.
•An estimated 1.3 billion people smoke
•84% of all smokers live in developing and transitional economy countries
•Most people start smoking before the age of 18; almost a quarter of these individuals begin using tobacco before the age of 10
•47.5% of all men smoke compared to 10.3% of women.
•Tobacco is the fourth most common risk factor for disease worldwide.
• Tobacco is deadly in any form or disguise: •Cigarettes, pipes, bidies, kreteks, clove cigarettes, snus, snuff, smokeless, cigars…
•Mild, light, low tar, full flavor, fruit flavored, chocolate flavored, natural, additive-free, organic cigarettes, PREPS (Potentially Reduced-Exposure Products), harm-reduced…
•An estimated 200,000 workers die every year due to exposure to smoke at work; The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that second-hand smoke is responsible for about 3000 lung cancer deaths annually among non-smokers in the country.
• In 2000, fire caused by tobacco smoking caused •10% of all fire deaths
•300,000 deaths
•US$27 billion in costs
So smoking is unhealthy, everyone knows that. Also how do they determine second hand smoke is responsible for that many cancer deaths of non-smokers, are they absolutely certain it was just cigarette smoke and not any of the other crap in the air? Why does the media and government always try to use scare tactics rather than just provide accurate information. I mean if smoking most definitely causes cancer in all cases, why doesn't my grandmother on my dads side or any of my other older smoking relatives have it?
12 Apr 2012, 9:05 pm
