Warning! Tobacco is Hazardous to Your Health - D Paul Graunke - July 1977

D Paul Graunke

Written more than 300 years before the U.S. Surgeon General warned us about the dangers of smoking, the words of King James I (below) and Tobias Venner (see page 26) seem aptly prophetic. Yet, despite their denunciations of the obnoxious weed, the habits of smoking and chewing tobacco flourished. And today, despite an enormous mountain of evidence that implicates tobacco in the deaths of hundreds of thousands annually, hundreds of millions continue to inhale and chew away their health and lives on tobacco products. In 1975 over 3.5 trillion cigarettes were smoked worldwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This represented a gain of almost one trillion over the 1960-1964 yearly average. Department officials forecast that cigarette smoking will continue to rise at a three to four percent annual rate because of population growth and because tobacco is the first luxury item poor people buy. Perhaps you use tobacco. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library