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You're correct. Second hand smoking kills 42,000 people each year in the United States alone [1]. More than 3 times as many as homicide by firearm. Furthermo
by learc83 14y ago
You're correct.
Second hand smoking kills 42,000 people each year in the United States alone [1].
More than 3 times as many as homicide by firearm.
Furthermore second hand smoking in Britain (more common than the US) kills about 5 times as many people per capita as do firearms in the US [2].
[1] http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/the-major-toll-of-secondhand-smoke/ http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/the-major-toll-of-seco...
[2]http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/smokingandtobacco/passivesmoking/smoking-and-cancer-secondhand-smoke http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/healthyliving/sm...
- senthilnayagam 14y agoit takes years to die as a second hand smoker, even the smokers ten to live on for decades. but bullets are swift like cyanide, intended to kill and do kill for sure
- mgarfias 14y agoNot really. Rifles at close range do tend to end people quite badly - providing the bullet fragments or expands. There are many tales from Iraq/Afghanistan where this isn't happening with the 5.56mm NATO. And pistols really only kill about 25% of the time. Remember that in order to kill a human with a normal pistol, your target is the size of a pair of ten is balls separated by 18" of rebar. Hit the brainstem, heart, or spinal column and the target goes down NOW. Miss that, and all sorts of odd things can happen, including living through the hit.
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