inhale water or inhale smoke....
When I was a teen on a canoe trip we had to pass a safety test before venturing out on a three day portage in the wilderness. Our task was to right a capsized canoe in the water with the help of another canoe. The day of our test a strong wind blew parallel to the island where the main camp resided. My friend Bill and I were the first to flip our canoe with the second canoe near by. I came up on the wind side of the boat and Bill was on the opposite side with the wind blowing the boat into him. It was easy for him to grab the canoe and hang on. I, on the other hand, could not reach the canoe as the wind blew it from my grasp. With my leather hiking boots on, it was hard to move in the water which was way over my head. I struggled furiously to catch the canoe, but it blew away from my grasp. The other canoe finally grabbed it and steadied it in the water, but both canoes were now 50 ft. from me and moving. I was struggling to stay afloat, my energy expended in trying to catch the capsized canoe. Being out 60 ft. from the shore, and a strong cross wind blowing, reaching the shore before I drowned looked like an ever decreasing possibility. Our instructor on shore quickly realized the danger I was in, he raced to the other side of the small island, hopped in the speed boat and raced the several hundred yards around the tip of the island to where I was, about to go down for the three count.
That was my closest call in the water. I still swam and snorkeled and fished after that, not losing respect for this dangerous, but amazing element of nature. The dangers of inhaling tobacco smoke as compared to inhaling large amounts of water are really difficult to compare, but I am going to try it. When one inhales water, they drown, they stop breathing and shortly thereafter, die. When one inhales tobacco smoke, they experience a type of soothing high. The drug is called Nicotene. They don't die in a few moments, or a few days, or weeks, or even years. Some live long lives, but half of all who smoke die from the result. So how in the world can I compare this to the recent Tsunami that killed close to 200,000 people? Well, easy. Each year in America alone over 430,000 people die as a result of a smoking related illness. That is two giant Tsunami disasters of death. But what about all the property damage done by the Tsunami? The lost jobs and destroyed lives! Well tobacco cost the United States citizens between 50 and 73 billion dollars in medical expense every year. Homes lose their main bread winner, the father, or the mother, the son or the daughter. Many families lose several loved ones to tobacco in their lifetimes. So why am I comparing this natural catastrophy to a self-induced tragedy? To illustrate to you how devastating tobacco use is to our society. Did I mention that worldwide tobacco use claims the lives of over 5 million per year? Now tell me, what is the real Tsunami, the giant wave Tsunami or the tobacco tsunami?
"When, on a global basis, nearly 10 000 people a day are dying from tobacco use, good intentions are no longer enough,"emphasised Dr Nakajima. "That is why our Member States have asked WHO to move beyond good intentions and to develop an international framework convention for tobacco control."10,000 a day! That means at the current rate, smoking will kill 262,800,000 people in a span of 72 years, about the current population of the United States. At 20 years of life on the average lost per person that is 5,256,000,000 years of life lost, thanks to tobacco smoke. To all the Scrooges or populationists of the world, this sure is a good way to decrease the surplus population. And you were worried about overpopulation! Hah! This is equivolent to 1,314 Tsunami disasters in the next 72 years
That was my closest call in the water. I still swam and snorkeled and fished after that, not losing respect for this dangerous, but amazing element of nature. The dangers of inhaling tobacco smoke as compared to inhaling large amounts of water are really difficult to compare, but I am going to try it. When one inhales water, they drown, they stop breathing and shortly thereafter, die. When one inhales tobacco smoke, they experience a type of soothing high. The drug is called Nicotene. They don't die in a few moments, or a few days, or weeks, or even years. Some live long lives, but half of all who smoke die from the result. So how in the world can I compare this to the recent Tsunami that killed close to 200,000 people? Well, easy. Each year in America alone over 430,000 people die as a result of a smoking related illness. That is two giant Tsunami disasters of death. But what about all the property damage done by the Tsunami? The lost jobs and destroyed lives! Well tobacco cost the United States citizens between 50 and 73 billion dollars in medical expense every year. Homes lose their main bread winner, the father, or the mother, the son or the daughter. Many families lose several loved ones to tobacco in their lifetimes. So why am I comparing this natural catastrophy to a self-induced tragedy? To illustrate to you how devastating tobacco use is to our society. Did I mention that worldwide tobacco use claims the lives of over 5 million per year? Now tell me, what is the real Tsunami, the giant wave Tsunami or the tobacco tsunami?
"When, on a global basis, nearly 10 000 people a day are dying from tobacco use, good intentions are no longer enough,"emphasised Dr Nakajima. "That is why our Member States have asked WHO to move beyond good intentions and to develop an international framework convention for tobacco control."10,000 a day! That means at the current rate, smoking will kill 262,800,000 people in a span of 72 years, about the current population of the United States. At 20 years of life on the average lost per person that is 5,256,000,000 years of life lost, thanks to tobacco smoke. To all the Scrooges or populationists of the world, this sure is a good way to decrease the surplus population. And you were worried about overpopulation! Hah! This is equivolent to 1,314 Tsunami disasters in the next 72 years
posted by Doug at 2:22 PM
