Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:02:38 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:
If you going to smoke, smoke an Altria brand. Filthy habit, but I enjoy the
dividends.
Filthy habits are drinking to excess and endangering innocent lives.
I'd be willing to bet that drinking alcohol kills a hell of a lot more
people than cigars do.
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I'll bet you're wrong.
By the way, you can't partition off just cigars, unless you do the same
with alcohol, like compare cigar related deaths to, say, gin related
deaths.
http://tiki.oneworld.net/pollution/smoking.html
says that 434,000 people die each year from smoking in the U.S and
60,000 die each year from second hand smoke.
Then this site puts alcohol deaths at 100,000:
http://www.bookmark-manager.com/permalink-41