April 10, 201412 yr I listen to alot of podcasts and heard this today. Interesting http://freakonomics.com/2014/04/03/how-to-make-people-quit-smoking-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ This is a light hearted podcast but I found this excerpt from the transcript to be sobering: WARNER: About 45 million adult Americans are smokers today. That’s approximately 18 to 20 percent of the adult population. Cigarettes are currently killing 480,000 Americans annually. That’s one out of every five deaths in the nation. In other words, one out of every five deaths is completely avoidable. And the people who die as a result of smoking are losing up to 20 years of life expectancy.
April 10, 201412 yr In the West, smoking as a whole is decreasing, and is on the wane and the numbers I read recently from NCDC are around 17 per cent for the USA . More people are becoming educated. Third world rates are up. BIg tobbaco needs people who are unaware of the dangers to get their hooks into. Why? Replaceability. Someone needs to step up and fill the spots that the dead smokers leave vacant, or Philip Morris loses profit margin. No traffic, no money. Follow the money. Thats why they are making them even more addictive and people are really getting hooked up good, and so their cycle begins. This is the same reason countries die, because they don't reproduce/replace. For instance Japan has whole towns full of empty schools, with old people taking care of even older people, No young people in lots of places there. Same-same in Europe. In Japan the ratio is less than 1.0. where they do not have people to replace the ones who are dying of natural causes. Same effect, different cause. In Europe they have other ethnic groups that come in and fill the population. Look at the make up of Belgium what ethnic group is in the majority there?
April 10, 201412 yr I listen to alot of podcasts and heard this today. Interesting http://freakonomics.com/2014/04/03/how-to-make-people-quit-smoking-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ This is a light hearted podcast but I found this excerpt from the transcript to be sobering: WARNER: About 45 million adult Americans are smokers today. That’s approximately 18 to 20 percent of the adult population. Cigarettes are currently killing 480,000 Americans annually. That’s one out of every five deaths in the nation. In other words, one out of every five deaths is completely avoidable. And the people who die as a result of smoking are losing up to 20 years of life expectancy. I'm going to listen to this on my way to work in the morning. It's saddening to see the damage that smoking causes and it's completely avoidable. We gotta help everybody we can to quit smoking and bring big tobacco to their knees. No demand for their deadly products and they go away. Not like the Master Settlement Agreement, which cost them an arm and a leg, but far fewer customers means that somebody while I'm on Rt-95 in Virginia I don't have to see their huge campus and big cigarette statue along the freeway.
April 10, 201412 yr Author The podcast discusses that part of the reason cigs are so expensive is that the cost of the settlement agreements are being passed on to the current smoker. This is really disgusting if you think about it.
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