RE: Empathy18 Mar 2020 16:03
A far deadlier agent of death will still be among us when the Corona virus crisis is finally over, tobacco. Tobacco kills up to half of its users. Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year (World Health Organisation figures). More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. Let that second figure sink in, 1.2 million people per year dying because others around them smoke. How come it's still legal to smoke in public when it's a far bigger killer than the virus we're now 'social distancing' from? So far 8,000 people have unfortunately died from Cv in the last 3 months or so, but in that same time passive smoking has killed 300,000, or around 23,000 a week. Corona virus is small potatoes compared to tobacco
Now don't get me started on obesity . . .