yajvan
26 September 2007, 04:03 PM
Hari Om
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Namaste,
As of late we have been talking of ana (food) and what we take in. What is one thing that would improve ones health overnight? Consider smoking and those that do and don't. There's some good and not so good news...
Every day around 15 billion cigarettes are smoked world-wide. Is that the good news? Nope. The good news is less Americans are participating. Here's some interesting facts:
In the USA, there were 44.5 million adults (18 years of age and above) that were smokers in 2004 (the most recent year for which numbers are available). This is 21% of all adults, or 1 in 5. Now how's that good news? Well, its down substantially. In 1965, 52% of all males over 18 smoked, and 34% of females smoked, so it's been cut in half.
Here's some bad news. If you just took China alone, over 300 million men smoke today. That's equivalent to America's total population. And other countries are still puff'n away. ROW countries are growing in smokers and creating new smokers daily. If we look at Italy, a thriving country it has 48% of the adult population smoking, Japan weighs in at ~54% . In India , men-smokers are between 15% to 50% of the population. So says this report http://medind.nic.in/iae/t06/i1/iaet06i1p37.pdf
How big is big?
Today 5.5 trillion cigarettes are consumed on an annual basis. That's equivalent to 1,000 cigarettes for every person on this planet (man, woman, and child); ya wanna talk global warming just with all the cigarettes being lit! let alone the 'exhaust' from these smokers.
So , from a USA perspective we got the message... I find it rare to see someone smoking these days. Yet the challenge is outside the USA. I hope others figure out the glamor is just not in the cough!.
In the USA cigarettes are ~ $4.25 per pack. If one smoked a pack a day which is common that is $1,551.00 per year. Think of the good one could do with this money? Heath club membership, a donation, etc. other then contributing to ones ill-health and the grief this will cause as one ages.
Smoking = Ignorance = grief, yet we pray to God for relief with our suffering, yet cause it ourselves.
~~~~~
Namaste,
As of late we have been talking of ana (food) and what we take in. What is one thing that would improve ones health overnight? Consider smoking and those that do and don't. There's some good and not so good news...
Every day around 15 billion cigarettes are smoked world-wide. Is that the good news? Nope. The good news is less Americans are participating. Here's some interesting facts:
In the USA, there were 44.5 million adults (18 years of age and above) that were smokers in 2004 (the most recent year for which numbers are available). This is 21% of all adults, or 1 in 5. Now how's that good news? Well, its down substantially. In 1965, 52% of all males over 18 smoked, and 34% of females smoked, so it's been cut in half.
Here's some bad news. If you just took China alone, over 300 million men smoke today. That's equivalent to America's total population. And other countries are still puff'n away. ROW countries are growing in smokers and creating new smokers daily. If we look at Italy, a thriving country it has 48% of the adult population smoking, Japan weighs in at ~54% . In India , men-smokers are between 15% to 50% of the population. So says this report http://medind.nic.in/iae/t06/i1/iaet06i1p37.pdf
How big is big?
Today 5.5 trillion cigarettes are consumed on an annual basis. That's equivalent to 1,000 cigarettes for every person on this planet (man, woman, and child); ya wanna talk global warming just with all the cigarettes being lit! let alone the 'exhaust' from these smokers.
So , from a USA perspective we got the message... I find it rare to see someone smoking these days. Yet the challenge is outside the USA. I hope others figure out the glamor is just not in the cough!.
In the USA cigarettes are ~ $4.25 per pack. If one smoked a pack a day which is common that is $1,551.00 per year. Think of the good one could do with this money? Heath club membership, a donation, etc. other then contributing to ones ill-health and the grief this will cause as one ages.
Smoking = Ignorance = grief, yet we pray to God for relief with our suffering, yet cause it ourselves.