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. And just when it looked like we were going to be able to hold cigarette makers financially responsible for their poison, another poison congressional greed set in.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths.
But more than 100,000 people die each year from lung cancer, related to cigarettes. More than 30,000 die of mouth and pancreatic cancers, related to cigarettes. Almost 200,000 from cardiovascular disease, related to cigarettes. Over 80,000 from lung diseases such as emphysema, related to cigarettes. Almost 1500 die from fires caused by smoking.