Every hour around the world, there are 800 people killed by cigarettes smoking.
We're talking about 2 Boeing 747 planes loaded with men, women, and children
blowing up in the sky every single hour of the day, every single day.
That would be equivalent to the number from the September 11 attacks,
which killed nearly 3,000 people, happening six and a half times a day.
Are you sitting on these flights?
WHY DOES NO COUNTRY BAN TOBACCO MANUFACTURING?
By leading to nearly 7 million deaths per year, cigarettes hold claim the No. 1 spot
of the top 4 most destructive inventions of human history.
Cigarette even outrank AK-47 rifles, atomic bombs and dynamites.
Have you never wondered why most governments in the world have anti-smoking movements,
but none of them ban tobacco manufacturing?
The answer is obvious.
The Tobacco Industry contributes significantly to the government budget of those countries
manufacturing cigarettes.
In 1960, the French government collected 1.2 million Francs per minute.
In 1977 the Japanese's government budget collected $13 billion from cigarette taxes.
In 1984, the small island of Cyprus still earned 11 million Pound from cigarette tax.
For ages, Tobacco Companies in the United States and United Kingdom have been known
for their mass manufacturing of cigarettes.
Every year the world produces 6 million tons of cigarettes.
The United States account for 1 million tons of those total.
The business profit is worth tens of billions of dollars.
In the US, the Tobacco Companies' power is reflected through their contribution to
the government budget, which is a crucial part to the development and survival of that country
Therefore, Tobacco Companies are untouchable since their "evil" impacts have reached
deeply into the government.
They lobby every government election, as well as support the government's finances.
Politicians don't dare to defy Tobacco Companies because they do not want
their political career to end prematurely.
The history of the world Tobacco Industry is long and it has been growing with a great number of mysterious
business affairs, and political manipulations.
Even the Health Department was manipulated.
In the early to mid 20th century, tobacco tycoons covered the negative effects of tobacco research
On the other hand, they secretly invested in building tobacco research centers.
Spokespersons from these centers were all related to this "dirty" money.
They claimed that there was no evidence that proved cigarettes caused cancer, nor did any
ingredients in cigarette lead to cancer.
In fact, about one third of all cancer deaths are related to tobacco use.
Tobacco Companies have made people believe that cigarettes are healthy by paying
millions of dollars for celebrities to smoke cigarettes on movies, or paying famous athletes
to be cigarette spokespersons.
On the contrary, Tobacco Companies endeavor to fund anti-smoking campaigns for children.
We can see this is how tobacco Companies reassure public opinion, and gratify the government
by funding the construction of tobacco rehab centers, and building anti-smoking movements.
In 1986, the United States launched anti-smoking movement.
It's ironic that the nation manufacturing the largest number of cigarettes started
an anti-smoking movement
The movement took millions of dollars from the government budget,
but fines from smoking illegally were also profitable.
This movement had made a huge impact around the world.
Other countries started to follow.
Tobacco Companies happily plucked out hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with those
anti-movements.
However, they raised the sale productivity in order to increase the purchasing power
from buyers.
As a result, cigarettes sale of the United States increased dramatically,
reaching a total of $93.4 billion in 2016.
With financial power, the Tobacco Companies spend loads of money to recruit the smartest
and most skillful employees to protect their empire, including managers, salespeople, lawyers,
doctors, spokespersons and many more.
Everyone operates like a well-oiled machine.
They are ready to face any problems threatening their empire.
Due to the large contribution to the government budget from Tobacco Companies,
cigarettes are not only encouraged to be manufactured but are also protected secretly or publicly.
Therefore, the government will not allow any organizations to pressure or influence cigarettes manufacturing.
The government just vaguely accuse the negative effects of cigarette by imprinting some
useless warning on the pack of cigarette, which no one pays attention to.
Occasionally, there were some wining cases against tobacco companies in the court.
However, that might be an action of reassuring the public opinion.
Or is it a hidden war among tobacco companies?
Meanwhile, Tobacco Companies are still selling 27.675 million cigarette cartons globally
each year, which is equivalent to emitting 2.262 million kilograms of waste,
209 million kilograms of chemical waste to the environment.
There are more than 4 million hectares of deforestation for cigarette fuels,
rolling paper production and paper wrapping.
With these intimidating figures, Tobacco Companies around the world have grossed $765 billion
But they also killed 7 million people every year.
Is it ironic how most governments prohibit smoking in public
but still allow cigarette manufacturing?
A "smoke-free" world seem like an impossible thing.
If there is still hope for a world like that, you should start to quit cigarette
or simply to say no to cigarettes.
Please share this video to everyone around you.
By doing this, 800 people may be still dying every hour because of cigarettes,
but it's better to take action than do nothing, right?
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