Smoking could kill 1 billion this century


	Smoking could kill 1 billion this century

The REAL Napster

7-2-2007 1:20 PM

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world health organization, smoking, cancer, death

The REAL Napster says:

Imagine that. And cigarettes are just legal suicde and homicide combined. Second hand smoke kills too.

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7-2-2007 1:49 PM

hyper7pro

I can't see how this is bad news. World is overpopulated anyway.

7-2-2007 2:10 PM

skwirlinator

Pop for Hyper7

8-13-2008 1:27 PM

strider72

Nap --

Smoking is almost as overblown as Global Wa... er... "Climate Change"

Remember the 400,000 deaths stat that was thrown around every time you looked? Over blown by roughly ten to one.

That's not nothing, for sure, but we're still determining public policy based on a lie.

An _excellent_, detailed article on the subject (PDF):
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv21n4/lies.pdf

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