But if we were talking about whole cities of innocent civilians being bombed, children being sold as sex slaves or starving to death or American families being used and abused by the troubled teen industry, thats shit thats worth caring about. You know, as much as its weird for me to even say, the serenity prayer does have a point, learn to accept the things you cannot change, and fight to change the things you can. I just draw my line at freedom of choice.
I would imagine that you care about the babies of woman who smoke when pregnant, since "they are innocent"?
I think any unnecessary death is a tragedy, no matter what the cause, whether it's war, crime, poverty or even yes cigarettes.
Here are some facts that might put this problem into perspective:
* Around 5.4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco worldwide
* Smoking is set to kill 6.5 million people in 2015 and 8.3 million humans in 2030, with the biggest rise in low-and middle-income countries.
* Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
* An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
* Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.
* 1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people a day.
* Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue.
If secondhand smoke kills 50k people in the US alone each year, then it's not really just the smokers problem, now is it? More people died from smoking cigarettes (100 million) in the 20th century than died from all the wars combined. That includes WW1 WW2 and all the other smaller wars, COMBINED.
This isn't about choice, it's about money. Human beings are biological creatures like any other animal living on this planet. Some chemicals are VERY addictive, and we will continue to take them to our own detriment.
Corporations are standing in line to make BILLIONS per year by selling these deadly chemicals to people. They work hard to make it MORE addictive, MORE deadly, and get people hooked younger and for longer. They use chemistry to amke their cigarettes worse for people, as long as it keeps them smoking longer. All they care about is money. They market to kids, and try to convince people smoking is cool and not that bad for you.
More people die from smoking EACH YEAR than Jewish people did in the holocaust. So that is a holocaust EVERY year, but we are supposed to just give up and say "oh well it's a personal choice". NO! It's not a personal choice, it's a carefully planned conspiracy to make TRILLIONS of dollars worldwide of the suffering and deaths of ordinary people. People want to smoke because it's addictive and part of our social culture. But this can change, and anyone with a rational mind should be working on CHANGING our culture so it is no longer acceptable to run a corporation that is bent on killing people for profit. That's all this is about, a corporate holocaust! A sick and twisted situation in which the victims actually pay their killer. That would be like the Jews paying the Germans for a daily supply of Zyklon B for 20 years, and then they all die off. Huh, if only Hitler had thought of that? You got to admit. It's clever, devious and downright evil.
And PLEASE. Don't make the communist argument that "it's better for the economy and government if people die", that is just so ignorant and evil it's not even funny and nobody should be making that argument. There is plenty of food, and supplies and energy to support the world's population. Earth could support 100 billion humans, especially as we get more efficient in our science and agriculture. Nobody "needs to die" for a stupid reason like smoking cigarettes. What a waste of human life, all because of an addictive chemical that 20th century corporations have used as their own personal gold mine. If the native americans only knew a few hundred years ago what would happen when they traded their native tobacco plant to europeans.. tobacco must be their karmic revenge on the rest of the world.
