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Dentist Recommendation

Those reading this post will recognize the deceit being practiced in these ads. It is widely
understood today that cigarettes cause cancer, lead to heart disease, COPD, emphysema,
and a wide range of other maladies. It is estimated that 100 million people died in the 20 th
century from smoking cigarettes. How deplorable, unethical, and damning is it for cigarette
merchants to not only ignore the negative health effects of smoking, but to promote the idea
that smoking is actually healthy and endorsed by physicians and dentists?

• Around 6 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.
• Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health
Organization (WHO).
• An estimated 1.3 billion people are smokers worldwide (WHO).
• Over 443,000 Americans (over 18 percent of all deaths) die because of smoking each
year. Secondhand smoke kills about 50,000 of them.
• 1.2 million people in China die because of smoking each year. That's 2,000 people
a day.
• Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in the 21st century if current smoking trends
continue.
• 33 percent to 50 percent of all smokers are killed by their habit.
• Smokers die on average 15 years sooner than nonsmokers.
[Source: http://www.inforesearchlab.com/smokingdeaths.chtml]

It should be obvious that the corporate money powers care nothing for the value of human
life, nor does the government. Not only has the American government sent millions of
young Americans to be killed and maimed in foreign wars that were fought under false
pretense, they made sure the soldiers, sailors, and airmen had plenty of cigarettes to take
along with them.