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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
exactly!  take a gander http://www.craigerscinemacorner.com/...or_smoking.htm
In terms of modern day scourges that kill people on an annual basis, nothing can top cigarettes.
Sure, alcohol is a terrible cause of fatalities every year, but their numbers are relatively small compared to tobacco (approximately 80-100,000 deaths per year in the US).
What about say?guns? A paltry number, if statistics mean anything. Firearm related deaths only account for about 11,000 deaths per year in the US. |
Smoking cigarettes kills those people who choose to smoke them. Same thing with alcohol. Sorry, but your analogies are fucking retarded. How are you gonna kill someone with a cigarette, flick it in their bed while they're sleeping?
The abuse of firearms kills other people - most recently a shitload of little kids - who never do anything to opt into that abusive and destructive behavior.
Other differences could follow, but that one alone is so profound that there isn?t enough left of your analogy to proceed in any serious fashion.