100 Million Smokers Died – Did We Learn?

By Shlomo Maital  

      Smoking causes lung cancer.  We’ve known that since 1975, when thorough research was published. 

      That is 50 years ago. Yet by one estimate, one adult in five in the world smokes.  And vaping is making inroads especially among teens and young people.

       A serious estimate shows that 100 million people died from the effects of smoking, over the years.  That is more than all those who were killed in world wars.

        What happened?  The Big Tobacco companies waged a fierce costly campaign against the science – and succeeded for years in making big bucks on the coffins of the people. 

          And today?  As Musk, Kennedy, Trump and DOGE dismantle the US science establishment, and its research, and when Kennedy visits the funeral of a Texas child who died of measles (unvaccinated)! —   is it deja vue?  

           Will people die as a result of ignoring or dismantling science?

           Hello!   They already are.  A small child in Texas.  It should never have happened.