There’s a pressrelease over at the WHO regarding the Tobacco treaty. With the signatures of Congo and Ecuador, 100 countries have ‘underscored the intention to protect their citizens from tobacco related diseases’. Remarkably, the list of countries does not include the US. There’s a reason for that. Or maybe not.
No, really, a couple of weeks ago, the CDC released a factsheet of ‘common causes of death’ in the US in 2000. Smoking, naturally, tops the list of causes of death.