A few minutes later their car was struck head on. In the heat of passion, the brain shuts off, and people ignore the risk. Safe sex is the sex from which you restrain, not the sex in which you take limited safety precautions. Almost one-half million people die annually from health problems caused by smoking. Such deaths have increased 10 percent annually although the number of smokers has declined by almost one-third.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths.
30,850 died of mouth and pancreatic cancers. 197,820 from cardiovascular disease. 82,857 from lung diseases such as emphysema. 1303 died from fires caused by smoking. The deaths of 2552 babies were attributed to their mothers' smoking habits.