Re : Re:Pricing Smokers into Oblivion and Other Annoying Trends -- Bort
I think it's pretty bull---- to list deaths as 'smoking related', especially if say, one person smoked only once or twice in his/her life, or smoked for only a few years(especially if less than 5 years), then chose to quit!And as for the ACS 400,000 deaths figure, I always laugh hysterically if I hear some foolish anti use that figure when it comes to smoking-related deaths! How can that figure be right, if it's only a perverted estimate of computer data from many years ago, and how can it be correct from year to year? Don't get me wrong either, I know some deaths definitely do happen each year from smoking-related causes, but I ABSOLUTELY KNOW it is NOT 400K a year! (and regardless what the actual figure is)
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