1 Billion Tobacco Deaths In 21st Century, page 1
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Topic started on 10-7-2006 @ 05:45 PM by Keyhole
Health Officials are predicting 1 billion tobacco deaths in the 21st century. Health officials know how to cut the rate of tobacco deaths by just changing eating habits, that would probably be harder to do than to get them to quit smoking.

Even if the percetage of smokers go down, the future death toll will still go up due to the increase in population.



www.cbsnews.com
Tobacco alone is predicted to kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, if current trends hold.

"In all of world history, this is the largest train wreck not waiting to happen," said John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society.



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I don't know why the insurance companies aren't pushing for safer cigarretes for smokers. After reading this they probably will be. Health officials estimate that ther are 1.25 billion smokers right now and over have of them will die from this habit.

It was the insurance companies that got seat belt laws passed because people were getting hurt in accidents in cars and costing them money, now if your caught without a seat belt on you get a ticket or fine (it was also costing insurance policy holders more in premiums for people being injured because they weren't wearing
seat belts).

Do you suppose we might see insurance companies pushing to stop/slow/make safer, the use of tobacco.
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