{"id":2095,"date":"2011-05-31T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/why-cigarettes-are-amazing-who-reuters.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:09:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:09:47","slug":"why-cigarettes-are-amazing-who-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Why Cigarettes are Amazing: WHO | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cigarettes are amazing for a couple of reasons:<\/span>

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1) They are allowed to be sold to people.<\/b> Somehow, this industry has managed to convince the people who “safeguard” our food products that it’s okay to sell consumers products that KILL THEM. <\/span>

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Cigarettes are lethal. So lethal in fact that the WHO has just estimated that they will be killing 8 million people per year by the year 2030. <\/span>
If you are KILLING PEOPLE, but you do it anyway, what does that make you? Are you culpable?  <\/span>

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Not if you’re in this industry, because they are so amazing, apparently, that they are exempt from this little nettle. <\/span>

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2. Cigarettes are addictive<\/b><\/span>
What food company wouldn’t want to put an addictive drug in their product? I do!! I want to make Crack Ho-Hos. Just throw some addictive substance in there as a “flavor enhancer” and people will line up for it!! My Crack Ho Hos would be so popular, and I could sell them to Asian markets, pay my enormous taxes, and everyone would be happy. <\/span>

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How addictive are cigarettes? Well, when you smoke, you stink. Your clothes stink. Your breath stinks. Dude, your hair stinks. How addictive MUST it be to make your continual, wretching stench worth it?  THATs how addictive it is. <\/span>

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So yes, cigarettes are amazing — that they are allowed to be sold to people … to addict them … and to kill them. Just amazing. <\/span><\/div>\n

Smoking could kill 8 million a year by 2030: WHO | Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

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