[Jeff Chandler]

...tobacco companies wouldn't make products that kill 1,200 Americans a day.

1200 a day? Is that stat true? That would be 438,000 a year!

[SheLion]

Jeff! Isn't that rediculous? Smokers would be dropping off like FLIES! They pull these numbers out of their, ah.....you know what I mean, and thinks that the general public will believe it!

Take a look at Dr. Whelan's article about how Mayor Bloomberg is lying about the figures of smoking deaths. Even a Doctor recognizes this as a big FARCE!

Mayor Bloomberg Exaggerates Secondhand Smoke Risk

[Max McGarrity]

What they neglect to point out is that 6849 (or more) people die every day in this country. If 1200 of them are smokers, that leaves a whole hell of a lot of nonsmokers dropping like flies of something else...

Oh, yeah, 228 of those 1200 are more than 85 years old, and 480 are more than 75.

This figure is part of the CDC's SAMMEC computer program estimates. It would be far more honest if they would simply admit that they assume (this is the basis for SAMMEC) that since approximately 2-3/4 million people die every year in this country and approximately 25% of them smoke, and since half of all smokers will die of "smoking-related" disease, then voila! 1200 deaths a day due to smoking.

[jalisco555]

1200 a day? Is that stat true? That would be 438,000 a year!

Sounds true to me. Figure about 100,00+ deaths per year due to lung cancer (most due to tobacco), factor in head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer etc. and then add in all the deaths due to heart disease and you can see how it adds up.

Now, of course, everyone dies eventually so it is more accurate to talk about 1200 premature deaths per day. And this doesn't take into account the disability caused by emphysema, vascular disease, angina etc.

[mamelukesabre]

haha

That would take care of the population problem in third world countries really fast.....if it were true.

since everyone in third world countries smokes, and they still have a population problem, it seems that number isn't entirely accurate.

[FITZ]

1200 a day? Is that stat true? That would be 438,000 a year!

Even then they don't die directly from smoking but from cancer or emphysema or heart disease ---some would have died from some of those things anyhow, plus some smokers don't die from smoking related diseases. I wonder if they count 85 year old smokers in with these deaths? I still don't think smoking is a healthy thing to do but I question the statistics.