Talk about a pandemic that we should really be concerned about. The swine flu has killed 300+ the past 4-6 mos. in America and we hear about it everyday. Tobacco related deaths daily are around 1200 people. I guess I can't believe the nonchalant attitude we all have for people who die due to tobacco products. Wake up - this disease costs each and every one of us one way or the other!!!

While the ACS' Tobacco Atlas objectively estimates that six million people will die from cigarette smoking in 2010, the ACS intentionally chose to grossly mislead the public by replacing the words "cigarette smoking" with "tobacco" in the title of its press release to dupe the public into believing that all tobacco products (not just cigarettes) are similarly hazardous. Cigarettes are 100 times deadlier than smokefree tobacco products, and significantly more hazardous than cigars (because the vast majority of cigar smokers don't inhale the smoke, and don't smoke daily). But the ACS doesn't want the public to know these facts.

You believe cigarettes are more hazardous than cigars, what about the non-smoker who inhales it/them? Cigars actually are far more deadly, the fact is that more people smoke cigarettes and inhale than they will cigars. As for the smokefree tobacco products, they are deadly to the user and safer for the non-user. They still contain many of the same carcinogens as do cigarettes, so can be deadly as well (they are not a safe alternative to smoking). The fact is that all tobacco products are potentially dangerous however they are used and guess what they are all addictive. Looking at the article it pretty much just talks about people who smoke, so with that in mind you have to consider the others that will die from chewing, cigars, etc. and the additional 53,000 who die from secondhand smoke related deaths. In the US alone over 400,000 people die from smoking related death - that is almost as many people as there are in WY. Just a different perspective.

We are very interested in the estimations of the american cancer society, however we will need actual evidence to support the findings. Should this evidence be found to be missing or invalid we will have no choice but to conclude that the estimations, as well as any and all publishing venues who support them, are null and void. Null and void printed and published information, when represented as fact by the publisher, can in certain cases be iterperated by the law as a criminal offence.

More than 3 million Americans died from tobacco since 9/11 compared with 3 thousand deaths from the terrorist attack on the world trade center. Yet, even the prospects of another 400,000 Americans in the process of dying from tobacco this year is not important enough to have tobacco deaths addressed in the current health care and insurance debate. Nor, was this issue addressed in the recent presidential and congressional elections as worthy of honest debate. World wide tobacco deaths are almost too staggering to contemplate but they will occur as predicted as long as we do not fund those programs and services created to reduce harm from tobacco. Let's focus more on doing something about this tobacco genocide. No war compares with this ongoing loss of lives from tobacco. If today's 1,200 American tobacco deaths happened in one place in some disaster the news would be big and widely reported in our media. But they didn't happen in a major news event so they won't be noticed or reported. This death toll goes on day after day without the public awareness and news coverage this leading public health and preventable tragedy deserves. Who speaks for these invisible tobacco casualties? Apparently not our elected officials; not even the families and friends of those who die from tobacco. They are not organized to complain. There are no rich lobbying services to advocate for tobacco victims. So, the tobacco death clock keeps ticking and the world ignores its ticking.

Why is it the anti-smoking cartel condemns e-cigarettes but it sanctions big Pharm to sell nicotine inhalers??

Although Tobacco education has been a great program to lessen smokers and even educating everyone the effects of smoking and just include the possible health risk that smoking can bring to humans--nonetheless of the age, many were the victims of smoking. Admittedly, if Tobacco Prevention Programs to be cut that will possibly make people unwarned with hazardous smoking and many will need instant moneyto help the funding of the program just to maintain the said program.

IT's been said that if we could keep youth (under 18) from buying tobacco products (just not buying them), we'd critically impact the tobacco industry. We have federal laws that says that under 18's can't use/purchase tobacco and yet we fail to enforce this. The numbers of deaths that we attribute to tobacco are off a bit. The tobacco users that we claim die of lung cancer, strokes, heart attacks could easily be called death from tobacco. This issue is about addiction, exploitation and money. We have tobacco inductry leaders that lose loved ones from this product and they're not letting it go. When we get over the greed for the money tobacco represents, we'll begin to really fight this issue

I am concerned that the issue Bill raises, above, i.e. the colossal harm differential between hot burning overdose cigarettes and smokefree or noninhale tobacco use methods, is being "overlooked". Time to answer the question why, as he says, the ACS "intentionally" misleads the public, in this case by substituting the word "tobacco" for "cigarette smoking". (As Perot said, pointing at some chart, "follow the money".)

They deliberately commit scientific fraud by using studies based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, in order to falsely blame tobacco for diseases that are really caused by infection. More than 50 studies have implicated human papillomaviruses as the cause at least 24.5%% of non-small cell lung cancers. This equals over 30,000 cases, which is over ten times more lung cancers than the anti-smokers pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to this virus, so the anti-smokers' studies, because they are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, are cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused by HPV. A significant proportion of lung cancers blamed on active smoking are actually caused by HPV as well. Obviously, there is a corrupt, politically-motivated coverup of a far larger cause of lung cancer than radon or secondhand smoke! http://www.smokershistory.com/hpvlungc.htm

I think by this point, the dangers of tobacco use are well known, at least in the US and most industrial countries, and most of the other ones as well. One can hardly claim ignorance at this point. The reason why people are still using, and therefore dying, is because they're addicted, or don't care. You can't educate that away. Worse still, others want to legislate tobacco out of existence, and the idea of a nanny state is entirely offensive. It's been demonstrated time and again that governments aren't interested in the welfare of the people, they care about the welfare of their campaign contributors. You want a solution? Don't smoke. It's your personal responsibility. Don't go into areas with a high density of second hand smoke on any kind of regular basis. I know how much a lot of people hate those two words, but seriously - take responsibility and abstain. Now, if everyone decided to follow that idea, then the numbers of smokers would decrease, as more people choose not to - and the numbers are diminishing, not just due to deaths, either. Prohibition demonstrably has never worked - vis a vis Al Capone and the "War on Drugs," a dismal failure, and a loss of a lot of our tax dollars. http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/02/12/payday-loans-and-the-motivation-to-quit-smoking/