[hattend]

Smoking is the top preventable cause of death in the United States, leading to 400,000 deaths a year. Ninety percent of smokers get hooked as children or teen-agers, according to public health groups.

I just can't wait until Congress go after AIDS and the homosexuals as rabidly as they do cigarettes. (not holding my breath) AIDS deaths are just as easily preventable than tobacco deaths.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

AIDS deaths are just as easily preventable than tobacco deaths.

More preventable - ever try to put a condom on a burning cigarette?

[megatherium]

Yes -- the average smoker loses 12 years of his life, according to the government epidemiologists, and a recent study said a 20 year old homosexual man will lose on average 8 to 20 years of his life. Yet it's the smokers the liberals give a hard time.

[Sunshine Sister]

Amen to that. I can't wait for fat old drunken Teddy figures it out that smokers pay a bunch of money in taxes and that is going to dry up if they mess with the content of cigarettes. Gee I wonder what programs they will cutt to make up for less income?