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Originally Posted by Rockster's Mom  I still find it kind of funny that smoking bans are the hot topic in city and state legislature when dunk driving is still hugh problem. IMO more people die from drunk drivers than people smoking around them. |
I was curious when I read this so I wanted to see if it was true......
Fact: Annual deaths from alcohol related crashes: In 2006
17,607
Annual deaths from smoking ( in U.S.):
440,000
It looks like smoking is the biggest killer.....a smoker also loses 12 years from their life...
Cigarettes contain 4000 chemicals, 200 of them are considered poisonous and 60 are considered carcinogenic...
171,900 new cases of lung cancer yearly
157,200 will die
Other cancers connected to cig.'s: mouth, esophageal , stomach, kidney, cervix, bladder, pancreas,....
Your smoking causes about 53,000 deaths annually from heart disease and lung cancer in non-smokers....
That's quite a lot of deaths just so some of us can enforce their "rights" to smoke in an enclosed area....If you can contain the smoke to stay in just your personal space their would be no problem, but since smoke knows no boundaries and I am unable to hold my breath during our entire dinner, I for one hope to see all public smoking banned, for the welfare of the workers, children, and all the non-smoking patrons...