Let's start here, with a quote from the CDC. “Despite the slow steady declines in prevalence in the United States, cigarette smoking still causes hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year," said Dr. Corinne Husten, acting director, CDC Office on Smoking and Health.
Don't you find it disturbing that while everyone is all in a dither over us being attacked here at home by terrorists--that with nearly a half million tobacco related deaths in the U.S. per year--those guilty of these alarming number of deaths are given a pass (in the name of commerce and profits)?
President Bush claimed in the days after 911 that "You're either with us, or you are against us." He was speaking of other governments around the world. What I want to know is why is the U.S. Govt is not held to those same standards? Why don't we, get just as worked up over this as we do foreign terrorism? We've lost 6 Million lives to tobacco since 911.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/medicalnews/a/smokingcosts.htm
2007-03-29
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