Even today, famous magazines show a handsome guy smoking a cigarette in a rugged setting. He might be on a horse, or driving an SUV through mountainous terrain. The cigarette gives him an air of masculinity.
Of course, the ads don't show the consequences of such consumption habits. Drinking not only poisons every cell in your body, it damages your brain cells, i.e., dementia. Worse, according to the CDC, 100,000 people are diagnosed with seven different kinds of cancer annually, all caused by drinking, and 20,000 die—year after year after year.
In the United States, roughly 11,000 to 13,000 people die in alcohol-impaired driving crashes each year. According to the National Highway Safety Administration, there were 11,904 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, accounting for about 30% of all traffic-related deaths nationwide.
Daily Average:About 32 to 34 people die every day in the U.S. in crashes involving an impaired driver.
Blood Alcohol Limit:Crashes are classified as alcohol-impaired when a driver or operator has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08 g/dL or higher.
High-Risk Age Groups:Drivers aged 21 to 34 account for the highest percentage of alcohol-impaired fatal crashes.
Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 people in the United States each year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this total includes roughly 41,000 deaths caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the country.
Overall Toll:More than 480,000 total annual deaths.
Daily Impact:About 1,300 deaths every single day.
Proportion:Roughly 1 in every 5 deaths in the U.S.
Source: Rense.com
