quisquose Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Smoking? Sex is the most lethal weapon ever created. Billions of people have been killed because of people having sex. "Life" is a fatal sexually transmitted disease. Use contraception or be responsible for somebody's death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJRB Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Another episode of gullibles travels. Have you considered that this period coincides with the advent of the motor car,factory work and numerous chemical pollutants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20042217 US surgeon Alton Ochsner recalled that when he was a medical student in 1919 his class was summoned to observe an autopsy of a lung cancer victim. At that time, the disease was so rare it was thought unlikely the students would ever get another chance. But by the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from the disease, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause - tobacco. "The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation," says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. "It killed about 100 million people in the 20th Century." Why do people still take up this vile habit? This invention has killed over 100,000 people in the UK alone since 1926 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car How many people is this invention responsible for killing?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun One of the biggest killers on our planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol Tobacco was used for centuries before the Europeans discovered it. It grows naturally on our planet, always has, always will. People still use it, because they want to. If you don't like it......tuff tit's! Get over it and sod off! There's a million and one things that I don't like, but I would never dream of telling someone to stop doing it. This is still a free country, and long may it continue to be so! I won't bother you with my cigarettes, as long as you don't bother me with your anti-smoking BS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmaximus Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 I suspect more people have died of hunger, over that period. Only because the land was used to grow tobacco instead of food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteMorris Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Only because the land was used to grow tobacco instead of food. Or sell the tobacco for food? :hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 100,000,000, wow, that's a big number. Yet it is only 1.4% of the current world population. Using a crude death rate of 7.99/1000 people for the year 2000 we get ~48,000,000 people dying of which 935,000 died of smoking related lung cancer giving 1.9% of global deaths in the year 2000 down to smoking. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/beyond/beyondco/beg_03.pdf jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 100,000,000, wow, that's a big number. Yet it is only 1.4% of the current world population. Using a crude death rate of 7.99/1000 people for the year 2000 we get ~48,000,000 people dying of which 935,000 died of smoking related lung cancer giving 1.9% of global deaths in the year 2000 down to smoking. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/beyond/beyondco/beg_03.pdf jb One man responsible for 2% of world deaths each year. Yes a mere side show isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermit103 Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 Been done to death. What a croc thread !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frededwards Posted November 13, 2012 Share Posted November 13, 2012 "The invention that killed 100,000,000 people in the 20th century." I thought it was a thread about religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T 42 Posted November 13, 2012 Author Share Posted November 13, 2012 Been done to death. What a croc thread !!!!!!! It seems to have rattled your cage enough to post on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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