Wellness

[SeaMaiden]

More People Die Each Year in the US From Smoking( nearly half a million)

than from

Murder, AIDS, suicide, Drugs, Car crashes, and Alcohol 

COMBINED

[Scooby Doo]

Not nearly as many people are smoking nowadays.  I've been hearing that more people are dying from opiod overdoses than other causes.

[jeanlake]

Smoking is harmful and addictive. Many good people either enjoy smoking or struggle with trying to cease. My heart goes out to them because of cost, harm and addiction. Have never smoked, but siblings and I suffer from growing up in a home where parents smoked inside and in cars. Siblings have asthma and when I get bronchitis, it takes forever to get rid of. Doc told me typical of children who grow up with smoking parents. On the bright side -- fewer people smoke and public is more protected from second-hand smoke than a few decades ago. 

[SeaMaiden]

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@Scooby Doo wrote:

Not nearly as many people are smoking nowadays.  I've been hearing that more people are dying from opiod overdoses than other causes.

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@Scooby Doo  We have an opioid overdose crisis, but cigarettes still kill 15 times more people

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/1/16069684/fda-tobacco-regulation-nicotine-cigarette-s...

[mistyada]

@Scooby Doo Opioid deaths are the leading cause of accidental deaths in 2015, not the leading cause of all deaths. There were 52,000+ opioid deaths in 2015. Cancer, heart disease and respiratory diseases are the top 3 causes of death in 2016. Many of these diseases are smoking related.

[Goldengate8361]

I bet obesity and it’s related diseases (diabetes, cancer, etc) will soon become the front runner.

[KingstonsMom]

You made your opinion clear on the thread on CC, which was deleted:

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Community-Chat/Cigarettes/m-p/4243408#M1178574

[Kachina624]

How many threads do we need at one time telling everyone something we already know?

[SeaMaiden]

I just just thought it was eye opening....and shocking.  Maybe open someone's eyes  to make a positive move to save a life. That is all.

I expected someone might  to turn the thread with a negative spin.  Such is life. 

[TheMemphisVette]

i don't know a single person who smokes that does not know it is bad for them.

you'd need to be living under a rock not to know.

what is not preached enough is the fast food issue.   clearly with one or more on every block and drive thru lines loaded every day, the education is not happening.