This discussion is so silly. My mother died from 2nd hand smoke. She was never a smoker. My father quit in his early thirties. She spent the last years of her life with a big oxygen bottle at her side 24x7. Bob S.
On 12/29/06, Jostein Øksne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/29/06, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering when this thread might turn to the tobacco habits of > > so many of our European friends. There are those among them who are > > quick to criticize the vehicle habits of Americans but staunchly > > defend their right to burn tobacco leaves all day long. A strange > > dichotomy. > > Paul > > Paul, > Nobody in Europe are "staunchly defending their right to burn tobacco > leaves all day long" any more than the Californian bar guests that > Scott describes elsewhere in this thread. > > According to numbers from WHO, the consumption of cigarettes in 1998 > was 606 billions for Western Europe, and 451 billions for USA. Adjust > for population size, and the per capita consume is about the same in > the two regions. > Sources: > http://www.who.int/entity/tobacco/en/atlas8.pdf > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_USA > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_Union > > > Another aspect is that tobacco is a cash crop. Just like cocaine, > opium, and cannabis it is intended solely for supporting a > nerve-system stimulating habit.. With the latter three, much effort > goes into encouraging farmers to produce other crops instead. That > would be nice for tobacco too. > > And for the record of dichotomies, both USA and European countries are > among the top ten tobacco producers of the world. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco > > There's virtually no difference in European and American positions on tobacco. > > <g> > Except that Europeans smoke in smaller, less polluting cars. > </g> > > > Jostein > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
