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5 Million people die from smoking EVERY YEAR.

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Originally posted by: Vic
Originally posted by: BD231
Smoking DOSE kill, I'm sorry, but putting tar in the lungs of an already fragile body is determental to your health no ifs ands or buts.

Scientists say being overweight decreases your lifespan, so there's no way in hell Ciggs don't ware on your body.
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If I were you, I'd be more concerned about my own literacy skills than someone else's smoking habits...
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Hahahahahahaha.....lolololol........🙂
 
Smoking does not kill people, and has never been proven to kill people, people do not die from smoking. Please get this straight you brainwashed kids.

Geez.
 
Originally posted by: XZeroII

That means that approx 0.5% of all smokers die per year.
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1% of all the people in the world die each year, so does that mean that smokers are only half as likely to die as everyone else?

I think this is what pyonir was getting at. That study should have phrased things a bit differently.

 
What about drinking? How many deaths are caused by alcohol, directly or through related illnesses or actions (eg: drunk driving)? What about healthcare costs related to alcohol?

Any statistics?

Singling out only smoking is hypocrisy.
 
I think that all this "study" did is prove once again that Samuel Clemens was a very wise man indeed.
 
Personally, I'm glad we have harmful vices like cigarettes and guns and other such maladies of society. Without stupid people, we'd have way more many mouths to feed than we can handle. It's self-controlling population reduction.
 
Originally posted by: martensite
What about drinking? How many deaths are caused by alcohol, directly or through related illnesses or actions (eg: drunk driving)? What about healthcare costs related to alcohol?

Any statistics?

Singling out only smoking is hypocrisy.
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Do you know what hypocricy is? Hypocricy would be if I were a smoker and I were telling everyone else not to smoke. What you are proposing is realistically impossible. You are saying that a report cannot be done unless it includes a complete study on the effects of alcohol and I would have to assume everything else in this world that causes death. This study focuses only on smoking. What does alcohol or anything else like that have to do with anything? They are completely different subjects. My only point is that smoking is killing LOTS of people. Who cares about alcohol? That is outside of the scope of this study. Do you understand?
 
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: XZeroII

That means that approx 0.5% of all smokers die per year.
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1% of all the people in the world die each year, so does that mean that smokers are only half as likely to die as everyone else?

I think this is what pyonir was getting at. That study should have phrased things a bit differently.
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same thought here: start smocking and your survival rate is doubled...
 
Yep, the WHO says 50% of habitual long-term smokers will die from illness or disease directly caused by smoking. The other 50% will eventually die, from something, like anyone else, but not directly from smoking.

Not too bad, really, considering that smokers generally have inordinately unhealthy lifestyles, anyway. Don't exercise and eat whatever they want. Why skip the double chili cheeseburger and double chili fries when you're smoking a pack or two of cigarettes a day?

And one must consider that many folks have genetic predispositions to the same diseases that smoking will cause, so you have a compounding effect, between genetic predispositions, all around unhealthy lifestyles, and smoking. But smoking gets the blame if someone drops dead of a heart attack even though they had a genetic predisposition for heart disease, never exercised, were overweight, and ate double chili cheeseburgers a few times per week for 40 years.

Considering it takes 30...40...50 years for smoking to kill, and that one has thousands and thousands of opportunities to quit smoking in those 30...50 years, with many habitual smokers living just as long as the average life expectancy or even longer before surcoming to the long-term consequences of their chosen habit, I don't see tobacco as some great evil.

Certainly no greater evil than 40 years of double chili cheeseburgers, sedentary living, and being overweight. We gotta have some pleasure vices, I don't trust any one who has no vices.
 
Originally posted by: Luagsch
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: XZeroII

That means that approx 0.5% of all smokers die per year.
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1% of all the people in the world die each year, so does that mean that smokers are only half as likely to die as everyone else?

I think this is what pyonir was getting at. That study should have phrased things a bit differently.
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same thought here: start smocking and your survival rate is doubled...
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Anybody know where to get lab coats at a great price?!

😀
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Luagsch
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: XZeroII

That means that approx 0.5% of all smokers die per year.
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1% of all the people in the world die each year, so does that mean that smokers are only half as likely to die as everyone else?

I think this is what pyonir was getting at. That study should have phrased things a bit differently.
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same thought here: start smocking and your survival rate is doubled...
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Anybody know where to get lab coats at a great price?!

😀
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as soon as you write german as good as i write english we will talk again
 
If only 0.5% of smokers die per year...then sign me up for smoking.

By that number (0.5%), the average lifetime of a smoker is 200 years.

Once again...smoking is not the anti-christ. Everyone dies eventually...some smokers speed the process through a vice. But so do fat people, alcoholics, and nerds (due to habitual lack of excerise), etc.

My great great uncle smoke and drank like it was nobodies business and died at 101...he was driving and walking without a cane or any sort of assistance until he was 100.
 
Everybody here needs to view Penn & Teller's BullSh*t Show season 1 episode 5. I am a smoker, it's my choice. We only live once. Yes I agree it is a bad habit, but one harder to break than most illegal drugs. However, I am pretty f*cking tired of listening to you whining non-smokers claiming WE (smokers) are the ones polluting YOUR air. Look around you dude!<p>Haven't you ever heard of Acid Rain...Smog....Exhaust....Big Mouthed Politicians (oops sorry, kind of redundant)...etc???<p>Last time I checked it was the Smoker's World too, but yet our voice goes unnoticed.<p> Go watch Penn & Teller, you'll be very surprised at the results!<p> Sorry, just had to say my piece. If you Non-Smokers would just shut the heck up, you wouldn't be breathing in my SMOKE! So there.
 
Originally posted by: Staley8
If 5% of smokers die every year, I'm curious to know what % of "regular people" die every year? I think smoking is one of the stupidest things you can do to yourself and I will all states were like California....someday they will be.
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I am glad you are for goverment running your life but I am not!!

Ausm
 
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