The Worldwide Annual Smoking Holocaust

Smoking is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. Round tables should be established to seek to eliminate smoking entirely.

Here are a few notes on smoking, tobacco and the tobacco industry:

1. Within the last few years, the worldwide tobacco industry is estimated to be around USD $700 billion [1].
2. There are about 1 billion smokers worldwide, 80% of whom live in low and middle income countries. Up to half of these will eventually die of a tobacco related disease. [2] 
3. The Nazis killed 6 million Jews between 1941-1945 [3]. Tobacco companies kill 6 million people worldwide every year [2] - a worldwide annual smoking holocaust.

If you use tobacco, you'll pay. You'll pay with your wallet (smoking is an expensive habit), you'll pay with your health (you'll likely suffer from a tobacco related disease), and you'll pay with your life (up to half of all users eventually die of a tobacco related disease).

If you're addicted to cigarettes/tobacco and would like to quit, please contact your doctor  and/or your local community support groups.

In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.

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References:

1. Statistics and facts about the tobacco industry. www.statista.com. Retrieved Sept 7, 2014.
2. Tobacco. www.who.int. World Health Organization (WHO). Media centre. Fact Sheet No. 339. Updated May 2014. Retrieved Sept 7, 2014.
3. The Holocaust. www.en.wikipedia.org. Retrieved Sept 7, 2014.

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