According to the Associated press, [1]
Tobacco alone is predicted to kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, if current trends hold.
This humongous number begs for a morbid illustration. If you lined up the dead bodies of one billion dead smokers end to end, they would stretch from the Earth to the moon (which is 240,000 miles from the Earth) four times.
These statistics are worth keeping in mind for those times when someone argues that something must be OK because lots of other people are doing it.
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