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Originally Posted by jacksonbrown
What concerns me more then the COVID epidemic is this:
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death.
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.
From the CDC website
Yet, the restaurants that allow smoking at outside bars remain complicit in contributing to deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. |
Maybe that's why we are locking ourselves away from this virus. It's taking away our right to die from preventable, self-inflicted causes. Endeavor to persevere, my friend.
