Do you know that Tobacco smoking kills more than 5 million people every year?

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The number is very surprising because it is more than HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria combined. And if the current trends continue, Tobacco use could kill more than 8 million people per year by 2030, and up to 1 billion people in total in the 21st century. These findings, and others are contained in the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2009.
Only 5.4% of the world痴 population was covered by comprehensive smoke-free laws in 2008. That means more than 94% of people remain unprotected by comprehensive smoke-free laws shows that much more work needs to be done, WHO said.

Less than 10% of the world痴 population is covered by any one of these measure, the report states.

Other key findings of the report include the following.

Five more countries 末 Djibouti, Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Malaysia and Mauritius 末 met the best practices for health warnings on cigarette packages.
Three more countries 末 Israel, Romania and the United Arab Emirates 末 offered comprehensive help to quit.
Only one country 末 Panama 末 joined the small group of countries that bans all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. More than 90% of people lack protection from tobacco industry marketing.
Six more countries 末 Czech Republic, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, the Netherlands and Seychelles 末 levied tobacco taxes higher than 75% of retail price.
Of the world痴 100 most populous cities, 22 are smoke-free.


http://research.globalthoughtz.com/index.php/interesting-facts-about-tobacco-smoking-revealed/

here is one other substance that people smoke that is left out: worm shit.

I had the singular pleasure of working on a tobacco farm many years ago. Nastier work is hard to find.
When dried to tobacco is unloaded after curing, there was always a storm of worm turds headed down. Hats were not a fashion statement.
All that crap didn't get shaken out in the processing. Some got ground up along with the tobacco. That's why I never wanted to light up.

[old mark]

1. I quit about 20 years ago and I urge everyone who is even thinking about quitting to do so

ASAP.

There really is nothing good involved in it at all, and it supports a lot of conservative causes.


Good luck.
Rec
mark

[BAKTPRT]

2. excuse me!....Dont put that out there...we need those tax dollars

do you realize how many tax dollars there is in smoking?....In this time of trying to get this country back on its feet we need every buck we can get. Our plan is to get some tax money out there to get jobs started.....lets not kill the "pot of gold" just yet...I say wait till we get out of this depression BO should get us out of this mess by summer 2010 then we can work on getting rid of cigarettes all together and not have to worry about people smoking anymore

[old mark]

5. Legalize pot, tax that. If you insist on smoking, at least get loaded . nt

[BAKTPRT]

3. You forgot one

ethylene vinyl acetate is another chemical the government has mandated to be put in cigarettes to make them go out by them selves...heck any more mandates for adding chemicals to "butts" is going to make me take up the habit.(: BZZZZZZZZZ

[BAKTPRT]

4. 160,000,000

If "butts" were band then that would mean that there would be an added population of 160,000,000 people to our planet...we really have too many people as it is..our planet cant survive any more. with all the C02 being produced by human activity would bring this world to its knees...humans breath out .5 lbs of C02 every day that's 175,000,000 lbs of C02 every day our country breaths out alone...there is something to be said about controlling the population to save the earth...now multiply that number by the total human population of the earth....(170 million tons)....That's a lot of damn C02 in just one day...I say let them smoke and die...save the earth and at the same time we are producing a lot of tax dollars so we can spend on green programs to help save our planet...Its a win win

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I don't see why that's surprising.

[graywarrior]

7. Not to mention 2nd and 3rd hand smoke.

(That will piss off one or two here)