Wry Catcher
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What do cigarettes have to do with this? Are you claiming they are also a perception altering substance??
No. But cigarettes do cause 435,000 deaths a year.
But how many people die from "cigarette related incidents"??
"Based on a worldwide study of smoking-related fire and disaster data, University of California-Davis epidemiologists show that smoking is a leading global cause of fires and death from fires, resulting in an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion in the United States and $27.2 billion worldwide in 1998. The study was published in the August issue of Preventive Medicine.
Fires cause 1% of the global burden of disease and 300,000 deaths per year worldwide. Smoking causes an estimated 30% of fire deaths in the United States and 10% of fire deaths worldwide"
See: Smoking is a major cause of fires, study says