While many people know that smoking is bad for your health, most underestimate just how dangerous smoking is. Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. This video discusses just how many people actually die from smoking every year.

Read the 1983 article by Joel that helped inspire this video: "It's only cigarette smoking. It's not like a crime punishable by death"

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• Premature deaths caused by smoking
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• "It's only cigarette smoking, it's not like a crime punishable by death"
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I often hear the comment that smoking is the "only" vice a person has left, like this somehow legitimizes smoking. "After all, I don't do this and I don't do that, all I do is smoke."

If any person fully understands what the ramifications of smoking are he or she will quickly realize the foolishness of such a statement.. The fact is that smoking is responsible for more deaths than probably all of the vices that people are referring to when making such comments combined.

Below is a chart from 2006 showing the risks of dying from smoking compared to the risk of dying from other common problems. Many of these problems are caused from behaviors that are considered by some to be vices. Again, look at the numbers. If smoking is your only vice understand something. Your ONLY vice is destroying your health and if not dealt with will likely cause your premature death. The solution to your problem is not finding other vices either, it is simply getting rid of this one deadly addiction by sticking to your commitment to never take another puff!

Joel

Although the below chart was compiled primarily using 2006 United States data, your nation’s overall death category percentages may be fairly similar.