{"id":290,"date":"2009-03-09T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/03\/09\/stating-obvious-doesn-seem-to-work_09\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:29","slug":"stating-obvious-doesn-seem-to-work_09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/03\/09\/stating-obvious-doesn-seem-to-work_09\/","title":{"rendered":"Stating the obvious doesn't seem to work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stating the obvious doesn’t seem to work<\/a>
Originally uploaded by Dave Traynor<\/a><\/div>\n

I haven’t smoked for many years and so I haven’t even seen a cigarette pack in a long time. This one was lying by the path the dogs and I were walking on and I noticed that the warning on the front was a lot longer than it used to be. The statistics are pretty startling. In case you can’t read it on the small photo (click on the pic to see a larger version<\/i>) here’s what it says:<\/p>\n

Warning: Each year, the equivalent of a small city dies from tobacco use.<\/b><\/p>\n

Estimated Deaths in Canada, 1996
Murders – 510
Alcohol – 1,900
Car accidents – 2,900
Suicides – 3,900
Tobacco – 45,000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a lot of people that die from cigarettes. But do smokers really understand what kind of risk they’re running? Funny how people will buy a lottery ticket (which they have virtually no chance of winning) but they don’t think that they’re going to get sick from smoking.<\/p>\n

We’ve had these warnings for a long time but have they really done much to decrease smoking? It seems more plausible that they make people who are opposed to smoking feel better and that smokers just don’t pay attention. They know its bad but so what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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