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Originally Posted by tweeked
A good perspective Russ. Interesting that a bad flu year barely makes the news. Smoking kills 24000 a year in Australia (according to the Cancer Council)
UK was about 60% fully vacced at that time, so IF they (and we) get to 80% plus you can probably halve that number, to an extrapolated 5-6000 per year (and that is just the first few years, I am sure we will gain more immunity/updated and better vacc's as time goes on) I think society will decide that is ok, and if not then smoking will have to be banned too!
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Trans fats and sugar or diet kill more people than tobacco does globally!
I have smoked tobacco products since early teens, my left lung was removed 10 weeks ago, my lung was pink!
It was not full of tar like you see on the TV ads, and the tax on tobacco products add exponentially to Australia's GDP, if we stopped smoking it would probably affect the world economy negatively.
I believe that cancer causes cancer, smoking exacerbates overall health as does the exhaust gas from cars, planes, trucks and motorcycle's plus industry!
Cheers Billy
