[crystalsmom]

Originally Posted by jp4m2

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...

I would like to add that all these deaths due to smoking add an enormous amount to the cost of health care in this country. It is a long lingering horrible disease that costs the tax payer that doesn't smoke too a great deal of money. Great post jp!! We are almost smoke free here in Akron but the bars are fighting it. I smoked one year of my life and found it to be one of the hardest things to give up so people who have smoked most their life really have a battle ahead of them but there is alot more help out there today and I really admire those that stop.