Reply #55: you miss the point, just because youth smokers are down cause of cost, doesnt mean there

[sam sarrha]

there aren't any, and the ones addicted wont become one of the 1200 who die each day,

i was a research biologist.. i know how to twist and spin data to make my side look good, your data proves nothing other the profit margin.. you cant relay that to what i said, the deliberate addiction of children as a business model is live and well, its how they stay in business because they kill so many of their customers.. equivalent to a city the size of Cleveland, Ohio and Sacramento, CA, Kansas City, Omaha, Nebr. 90% all addicted as children


http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hbsmoke.htm
smoking. Smoking among teenagers, however, has not declined since 1980. Approximately 90 percent of all smokers start before age 18; the average age for a new smoker is 13.

..so. my point was that the tobacco industry is dependant on child abuse to stay in business.. that is a fact.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_age_do_people_start_smoking_at
As teens or preteens. The average age of starting is 13, so half start before that, half after. 90% start by age 18.

did you notice that HALF start before 13..

ATHSMA..

http://www.lungusa.org/site/c.dvLUK9O0E/b.22782/
Secondhand smoke exposure in both adults and children is a risk factor for new asthma cases. Recent studies have suggested that chil¬dren of smok¬ers are twice as likely to develop asthma as the chil¬dren of nonsmok¬ers, and that even appar¬ently healthy babies born to women who smoked during pregnancy have abnor¬mally narrowed airways, which may predis¬pose them to asthma and other respira¬to¬ry disor¬ders. This research was extended by a recent study that reported a child’s risk of being diagnosed with asthma by the age of seven increased 23 percent if their mother smoked even less than 10 cigarettes a day during pregnancy. The chance of developing asthma increased to 35 percent if the mother smoked more than 10 cigarettes a day while pregnant.7

you seem to think cause some statistic is down a very little bit.. there is no problem.. there is a big problem, and it kills 1200 mother/fathers/brothers/sisters every day... that is 1080 people addicted as children who at the time did not have the cognitive area of their brain developed enough to make an appropriate decision to start smoking.. its murder..

i wake up every morning to my wife coughing her guts out cause her mother smoked during pregnancy, her twin died at birth from tobacco related complications.. small head, poor lung development low body weight.. my wifes tobacco related asthma drastically reduces her quality of life. she takes multiple medications that have serious long term complications.

but you don't give a shit about the death and suffering. so this is all a moot point in the discussion, i wasted my time