One thing I have to say to you Blue although I agree with you almost entirely in your statement one thing has always stuck in my craw about certain stats. The Tobacco ones, you ever notice theres an abnormal amount (apparently the number one killer in the world). Here's the part I dont understand (or perhaps I understand to well and this is only thinly veiled sarcasm....) How come when you go to the hospital with a "lung" problem (disease etc) The first questions asked when it comes to "what your exposed to" are always "do you smoke AND are you ever around anyone who does". Why not simply be less biased and ask "have you ever lived in a smog filled city....., Have you ever lived beside a factory that deposits carbon in the air....etc etc etc ad infinitum. There are millions of reasons why people get lung diseases, problem is if you have had even one exposure to tobacco it gets blamed. Not the thousands of tonnes of car exhaust in the atmosphere or that black crap filming over everything within 5 miles of a certain factory......Can you say "Scapegoat" . I'm not saying their blameless in anything (like marketing to children etc) but in all reality they're(tobacco companies) as bad as any other mass producer.....no more , no less....

Apparently smoking kills but pollution only kills when you live in a bubble and have never been exposed to tobacco....