Funny enough, this common knowledge doesn’t deter people from smoking.

Question: Have you ever imagined the number of people who actually die each day from smoking cigarettes?

Answer: 1 death in every 6 seconds. Cigarettes kill more than homicides, suicides, car accidents, AIDS and drugs combined.

The tobacco industry is more powerful today than ever. No one has actually beaten the tobacco industry in court. When opportunity for settlement arises, people normally take it. For a simple reason, they appeal on any and every single verdict.

The tobacco industry is the business of killing your love ones, it basically systematically kills people. They manufacture their cigarettes to become highly addictive. Over the last few years, cigarette companies have increased the amount of nicotine to make them even more addictive.

The simple fact that people know that smoking causes harm to the body makes the quitting process even more difficult. The tobacco industry has created such a poisonous product that causes such a grave addiction that you know would eventually kill you but still not allowing you to quit this sinful habit. These companies knowingly manufacture such a fatal product for its user and make that look sexy and fun. The truth of the matter is that lung cancer is a painful and excruciating process to die and yet people are simply too addicted to cigarettes to stop puffing.

The tobacco industry spends billions of dollars in anti-smoking campaigns and youth prevention efforts. Their social / corporate responsibility is seen as discouraging people from buying their own products. This in their own rights is an unprecedented display of social / corporate conscious.

In fairness, studies have actually shown that anti – smoking ads that discourage teens from smoking are 36% more likely to make teens smoke. These anti – smoking campaign ads are essentially designed to get teens to smoke. Health advocates have also called for a ban on these youth anti-smoking campaigns funded by the tobacco companies as these have an insidious reverse psychology intended to get teens to have their first puff. They need go after kids with one strategy after another. Although tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise on TVs but they have hooked themselves up in the film industry and this has proved very successful for them.

Researchers estimate that getting movie stars to smoke in movies would deliver as many as 400,000 new adolescences smokers every year. Back to the point that they need hook young kids up to smoke is because in order for the tobacco industry to survive, it is essential for them to constantly get new customers as their products kills off their existing ones (literally kills off). They use social and psychological profiling to target potential smokers by gender, ethnicity, sexual preference and social economic groups. This is by far the only industry that doesn’t discriminate (absolutely no racism) anyone and everyone that uses its product.

You probably ask how smoking can even be legal then. Cigarettes contain deadly carcinogens that kill every single organ in your body. However, the truth of the matter is that the banning of cigarettes is very unlikely. Although Singapore has banned the sale of chewing gum, the sort of income stream that the government gets from the sale of tobacco is astronomical.

For many would say that Washington for what it is today has been bought and paid for by the tobacco industry.

The banking industry, which has caused hardly any death, is even more highly regulated than that of the tobacco industry that causes death in every 6 seconds. Is mind blowing to find out that an industry that produces poison and make you addicted to it is not regulated by any sort of government bodies.

Is cigarette worth somebody dying every 6 seconds? To each his own you probably would say.

All I basically wish for is for my dear friends and love ones out there to stop smoking. For those who have read this, I hope you find this insightful and give you encouragement to stop smoking.

While I took 20 minutes to write this article, 200 smokers have choked out and are out of this world. Ask yourself what’s the point of smoking…

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