Contemporary Health Nutrition Fitness & Injury

1. Up to 50,000 persons per year die of cardiovascular disease in the U.S. due to second-hand smoke, smoke blown by one person onto another.
2. Annually, more than 100,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease related to personal smoking. Even more people experience marked peripheral extremity pain because the effects of diminished flow through already narrowed vessels  is worsened by reduced oxygen carried in blood of smokers.
   
3. Nearly 450,000 U.S. citizens die of smoking related illness, annually.
4. Fewer troops have died in the Middle East over the past 9 years than persons killed by your neighbors’ second hand smoke every year.
5. In spite of the above cited data, only 21 states have banned smoking in public buildings, much less public places such as parks.
6. Tobacco industry, restaurant, bar, and many entertainment venue related lobbyists continue to ply their trade defending the products and smoking in their settings in spite of adverse health effects for all of their customers.

Moreover, who manufactured the tobacco products, a foreign company? No, Americans are killing you, your family, friends and neighbors!