Monday, July 30, 2007
More smoke inhalation
Only a small number of years after the stunning revelation that inhaling smoke is bad for you, the war against tobacco continues, with an op-ed from mom. Oh, I mean Betty Yang, a student who interns at "Berkeley's Tobacco Prevention Program," which advocates overpopulation and reducing genetic diversity in the ecosystem.
Many merchants are still allowing for simply providing an adequate birth date, but any middle or high schooler can do the math ahead of time and come fully prepared with a correct number. Sadly, this isn't actually true. But we're not talking about the school system, so let's let that slide. (Did you know that math prepares you for science? Apparently someone didn't)
In a country where 435,000 deaths every year are due to tobacco-related causes—a number totaling more than the combined death of all homicides, suicides, drug and alcohol deaths, car accidents, AIDS deaths and fire deaths—efforts to stop the problem surfacing in our youth is crucial. That's right. More tobacco-related deaths than drug deaths! Boy, my DARE officer must have been way off the mark when he suggested that tobacco was a drug.
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