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Don't tell me that flying is dangerous....
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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
2. My wife and I have discussed this disconnect many times. Every year about 160,000 people in the US die of lung cancer - at least 80% are caused by smoking. That's about 145,000 preventable deaths each year, or almost 400 per day. Put another way, every week smoking kills as many people as died in the 9/11 attacks.
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Someone in the anti-smoking camp recently was bitching about similar numbers. He said that the Native Americans can stop complaining about the disease that the Spanish brought to the new world that killed hundreds of thousands. Because the introduction of tobacco to Europe and European discendants has more than repaid the favor.
I remember that a helicopter crashed in Afghanistan killing four or five soldiers around the same time that the Columbia blew up. Seemed that the country cared a lot more about the latter deaths than the former. I think that what the deaths mean in the broader context tends to color how we view them.
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