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  • Barf Alert - US abstains in the war on tobacco

    03/05/2003 2:37:45 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 9 replies · 358+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | March 5, 2003 | Derrick Z. Jackson
    <p>THE UNITED NATIONS has voted to go war against the world's worst weapon of mass destruction. The United States is against the resolution.</p> <p>This news passed by with little notice last week. In Geneva, about 170 nations met in an effort to agree on a global treaty on tobacco. Cigarettes, according to the World Health Organization, kill 4 million people a year and will kill 10 million a year by 2030 if current trends continue. Unless there is a war on tobacco, cigarettes will cut short the lives of 500 million of the 6 billion people on earth.</p>