The largest cause of preventable death in America is tobacco-related death. Half a million Americans die each year due to tobacco use or exposure to secondhand smoke. The issue of secondhand smoke exposure extends to America’s children.
What is President Obama doing about this murderer lurking in our midst? Where is his outrage? Where are the string of executive orders aimed at stopping smoking once and for all in America by prohibiting tobacco products from being sold anywhere? It’s obvious that American’s can’t stop smoking on their own.
Is it up to America to prevent self-inflicted injuries?
(USGOV Centers for Disease Control) Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers.
The harmful effects of smoking do not end with the smoker. An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, including 54% of children aged 3–11 years, are exposed to secondhand smoke. Even brief exposure can be dangerous because nonsmokers inhale many of the same poisons in cigarette smoke as smokers.
Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, ear problems, and more frequent and severe asthma attacks in children. Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer, more than 46,000 die of heart disease, and about 150,000–300,000 children younger than 18 months have lower respiratory tract infections.
In 2011, there were 33,687 vehicle related traffic deaths; 42,917 deaths due to poisoning, and 31,672 deaths due to firearms. Balance that against the 443,000 who will die from self-inflicted smoking related illness and tell me where our national spotlight should be.
Personally, I don’t care whether people smoke or not. I’m not a progressive nor am I a liberal and I feel that people should have a right to smoke if they are so inclined. I choose not to smoke, but I am not a crusader on a mission to bend everyone to my will.
President Obama stated that firearms should be eliminated and that one firearm death in America each year is one too many. Is he willing to say the same thing about tobacco? Or alcohol – his alternate drug of choice? Liberals have no credibility because of their penchant for picking and choosing. The number of firearms related deaths is TINY and almost statistically insignificant when compared to tobacco related death. The ownership of firearms is protected by the Bill of Rights — and tobacco is not.
Background checks for cigarette smokers!
Hypocrite in chief.
The beauty of being a Lib-Prog is that the ideology freely permits you to ignore contrary facts. Don't like a fact raised to refute your argument, simply ignore it.
Al Gore does this all the time by repeating his mantra "The science is settled." I've never met a real scientist who sees any science as settled when contrary data challenge a conclusion. But of course Gore got a "D" in Natural Sciences at Harvard. Some scientist.
Agreed completely. Don't worry though… they'll get around to controling everything eventually.
Oddly enough, I quit smoking (again) on Christmas Eve. I loved to smoke. I quit because of the health risks and the expense. the most important reason that I quit (by far) was not liking the fact that I'm addicted to something. I'm pretty sure I'd still be smoking if not for the last reason.
Maybe I should print out one of the pics of the Prez with a smoke dangling out of his mouth and carry it around with me. Seeing him do it has pretty much curbed my urge to light up this morning. 🙂
I think Mr. obama's smoking is a good thing. A great example to others of his ilk.
I prefer a complete ban — for the sake of the children. But absent that, an FBI check would be a very good idea.
He loves you, USA_Admiral and if he gets his way, you too will love Big Brother.
Yes, it's an inconvenient truth for the progressives — and you're right. They simply ignore that, automobile related traffic deaths and poisonings (you could eliminate anything that is poison from America and we'd all be safer) and hone in on the only thing that the little people can use to defend themselves from tyranny.
I suspect that by the time they've controlled everything, a death panel will judge me too old to live and will order me executed (for the good of society – old people can be such a drain on the young).
All progressives should smoke.
Tobacco taxes keep a lot of governments afloat.
Maybe we should register tobacco users and publish their names in the papers? It would go a long way toward helping to identify the pariahs in our society that want to poison children with second hand smoke.
They ONLY pay attention to what they want to regulate… and tobacco makes them MONEY!!!
Not only money…GRAFT.
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