I am a smoker, and I do not drink. I am not bias in either situation. I choose not to drink because one of my previous jobs showed me what alcohol can do to a life.
The government has brainwashed everyone to fully believe that smoking is bad. While this may be true, they don’t brainwash anyone about the truly harmful “Alcohol.” Being that there are no actual “set in standard” statistics for either incident there are many sources that can show statistics that they have compiled.
While smoking causes “First Hand”, and “Second Hand” diseases there are many factors to take into consideration. While cancer is not something to take lightly, there is no puplicly shared hard proofed data regarding deaths caused by “smoking.” They can say someone died from cancer, but I have yet to read “died from smoking.”
In my area of the globe we have a town that had a cancer outbreak that was apparently linked to a company with initials CG. Cancer has been suspectedly linked to automotive exhaust, drinking, and quite a few more things.
With that said… Alcohol on the other side of the fence has a direct impact on statistics. The government has allowed banning of smoking in public places because of the medical “professionals” that have data that is not fully conclusive. Alcohol has been tracked for many years, and statistics are vastly available. Just so you know… Alcohol is known to cause cancer.
The interesting chart that I found showed the alcohol fatality / injury to total fatality percentages. I have copied it here for your review so that you can see hard evidence to support my thoughts. If alcohol is directly linked to cause issues, then why doesn’t the government do something about it, as they have done with the “Silent Statistic Smoking?” I have searched the internet, and cannot find any statistics supporting the smoking issues. Here is the irony… I can find articles about a alcohol related death at least once a day, while I can’t find a single article about smoking deaths.
Many private companies have taken the whole alcohol – smoking issue to their own level. As I previously posted in “Disney – No Smoking / Go Drinking Policy“, Disney has banned smoking in quite a bit of places on their property, but on the other side, they allow drinking with almost no extent. The strange thing is that Atlantic City still allows smoking in parts of the casinos. (According to the last article I read on this.)
I personally feel that all states should have a mandatory law for the requirement of alcohol sensors in all automobiles. Maybe they can work out how not to inconvenience everyone, but if the world is going forward based on what it is today, then maybe a little inconvenience would be good at this point.
I am not a medical professional, or some politician with an agenda based on non existant information, but I personally think that they have gone too far with this. If you look at it this way… Politicians see more revenue from alcohol. The revenue results from funds like: DWI, DUI, and a lot of other motor vehicle related fines, and charges. How can you fine someone for smoking, as I still haven’t seen… “Man smoking while driving kills 6. News at 11.” I have seen… “Drunk man kills 3. News at 11.”
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Total fatalities
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Alcohol related fatalities
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Year
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Number
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Number
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Percent
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1982
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43,945
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26,173
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60
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1983
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42,589
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24,635
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58
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1984
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44,257
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24,762
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56
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1985
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43,825
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23,167
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53
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1986
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46,087
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25,017
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54
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1987
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46,390
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24,094
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52
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1988
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47,087
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23,833
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51
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1989
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45,582
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22,424
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49
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1990
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44,599
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22,587
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51
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1991
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41,508
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20,159
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49
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1992
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39,250
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18,290
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47
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1993
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40,150
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17,908
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45
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1994
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40,716
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17,308
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43
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1995
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41,817
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17,732
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42
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1996
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42,065
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17,749
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42
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1997
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42,013
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16,711
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40
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1998
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41,501
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16,673
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40
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1999
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41,717
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16,572
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40
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2000
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41,945
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17,380
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41
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2001
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42,196
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17,400
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41
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2002
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43,005
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17,524
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41
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2003
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42,643
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17,013
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40
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2004
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42,518
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16,919
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39
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2005
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43,443
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16,885
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39
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2006
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42,532
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15,829
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37
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I remember when there was no sale of alcohol, tobacco, or gun in the Parks. Kids were there and Disney aimed to role-modeling. That was before they decided to chase for the bucks aboout the time they put family ethics aside.
Now what interests me is their change in Vacation Club places. There were No rules against smoking in the contracts bought and paid for by consumers over most of the last approx. 20 years. However, a couple of years ago that changed.
if you look at the fine print and a purchaser’s right to vote on the issue, it simply doesn’t exist. Disney configured its board to allow it to do what it wanted regardless of public sentiment. In fact the public–meaning the owners–weren’t even asked about their feelings on the total no smoking policy.
I am personally a non-smoker. But, I do think that the right to smoke should at least have been grandfathered into the contracts on file.