Smoking Is For Assholes
-About 1 out of every 5 deaths in the US can be attributed to tobacco products. -In 1990, 72 million bottles of a popular mineral water were voluntarily recalled because of small traces of benzene. The smoke from one pack of unfiltered cigarettes has as much benzene as 169 bottles of the contaminated water. -How do infants avoid secondhand smoke? "At some point they begin to crawl." -- Tobacco Executive 1996 -In 1990, a tobacco company put together a plan to stop Coroners from listing tobacco as a cause of death on a death certificate. -In 1989, millions of cases of imported fruit were banned after a small amount of cyanide was found in just two grapes. There's thirty-three times more cyanide in a single cigarette than was found in those two grapes. -Cigarettes will eventually kill a third of the people who use them. -One tobacco company developed a genetically altered tobacco with twice the addictive nicotine of regular tobacco. They code-named it "Y-1." -In 1984, one tobacco company referred to new customers as "replacement smokers." -Tobacco companies make $1.8 billion from under age sales -Tobacco companies make a product that kills 1,200 Americans a day. -In the 1970s, tobacco companies started making light cigarettes by putting tiny holes in the filters to let extra air mix with the smoke. They found they could get low readings of toxic agents from FTC-type cigarette testing machines. -In 1980, a tobacco company considered looking at itself as a "drug company." -Tobacco kills more Americans than AIDS, drugs, homicides, fires, and auto accidents combined.