Monday, February 18, 2008
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Tobacco products kill 1,200 people a day in the US, but it rarely makes the evening news. How come?
Do you hear of how many people died each day from a disease? Or all the car accidents? We're so used to it...it would only be a nuisance to announce the reality.
We just don't want to be uncomfortable with reality.
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I hate all the hype about tobacco. Let's talk about alcohol and drunk driving. How many innocent people are killed each year by drunk drivers? I don't think I've heard of anyone killed by a "smoking driver". Ugh. If you want to kill yourself by smoking, it's your own dumb choice (this coming from a former smoker).
I'm wondering when families of alcoholics are going to start suing Jim Beam or Jack Daniels. After all, those companies contributed to the deaths of their loved ones. I am a former smoker and it is an addiction and it is a choice. Yes, people die from smoking and second-hand smoking is bad. But, there are a whole lot of other things to be whipped up about, you know? Just my opinion...
I do agree with you about people being uncomfortable with reality. It's a very dangerous thing.
for the same reason they barely ever talk about deaths in iraq.
I have been reading your blog for some time but only recently started one of my own. I love the stories about your two precious little girls. It makes me remember when mine were that age. Now they are 22 and 18. Enjoy the good and the bad because it goes by so fast. I just know I am not old enough to be their mother, yet the birth certificate does not lie. Regarding the smoking thing, it makes the news much more now than when I was younger. When I was a little girl in the late 1960's just about everyone of my parents' friends smoked and you could smoke anywhere. Now it is banned, at least in our state, from all businesses, restaurants, everything, even several feet outside the doors. They have also increased the taxes on cigarettes in recent years so that they are much more expensive. So even though too many people still smoke, I like to think of the progress that has been made.