Stopping smoking?
I'm going to file this under D...for duh.
Of course there are other and better reasons...this is just one more. ONLY 990 deaths a year? Not insignificant if your mother is one, yes? Or not insignificant if it is, as some say, a NEW and more VIRULENT strain. Then the number might reach...oh...3,000 dead. Significant? 3,000 dead innocents because of a foreign invasion? Sound familiar? Tell me, professor...can you make a brick wall without bricks? No? Which will one you put into place before others might notice and say "Oh, look! There is a brick wall!"
47,500 deaths every year in car accidents
425,425 Heart attack deaths in the United States in 2006
556,902 people died of cancer in the USA in 2003
167,366 deaths in 1999 due to stroke
63,730 annual deaths for influenza and pneumonia
Do you see where this is going?
Nah, I am not scared of dying with TB.
Odds are ten thousand to 1 it will be something else.
I am much more concerned about murders and accidents caused by illegal immigrants than spreading TB.
It will take 6000 years for TB to kill as many killed by heart attacks. Your post is barking up the wrong tree.