We should just start phasing out all of the cigarettes

We should just start phasing out all of the cigarettes

It’s time to go. “Someone dies from tobacco use every 4.5 seconds. In the 20th century, tobacco killed an estimated 100 million people. That is a death toll larger than both world wars. Because of Big Tobacco’s move into the developing world, the death toll in the 21st century will be one billion. Something more must be done. Here in the U.S., tobacco use costs more than $300 billion and kills more than 480,000 people every year (virtually all of those deaths are from cigarette use). That is one-fifth of all deaths. In spite of all of our efforts, thousands of children become smokers every day, becoming “replacement smokers” for the tobacco industry. Cigarettes are a burden on society like no other commercial product.”