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• At midyear (MIDYEAR!) 2007, 780,581 inmates were held in the nation's local jails. 90% of these were male. Doing an Alta Vista search on the keyword phrase "second hand smoke cancer rate" not one single report came up.
• On December 31, 2007 2,293,157 prisoners were held in federal or state prisons. 1,483,896 of these were male (that's almost one and a half MILLION men, folks!).
• Approximately 70% of known stalkers (where the victim knows who their stalker is) are male.
• In 2007, 75.8 percent of all persons arrested were male, 81.8 percent of persons arrested for violent crime were male, and 66.6 percent of persons arrested for property crime were male.
• Somewhere in America, a woman (your wife, mother, daughter) is raped every 2 minutes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Approximately 683,000 women report (those who do report!) being raped each year (lung cancer was reported less than 172,000 - nearly a fourth of rapes from man).
• Somewhere, every second, a crime is being committed by a man that cost tax payers billions of dollars every year, along with innocent lives, loss or damage to property, and the given right to feel safe and secure.
• Approximately 2.1 million incidents of family violence were reported to police between the years of 1998 - 2002
  
  Of these reports:
  • 80% of family violence is carried out by men.
  • 73% of family violence victims are female.
  • A murder carried out on any family member is committed by a male more than 80% of the time. 83% of all spousal murders were committed by a man. Doing an Alta Vista search on the keyword phrase "second hand smoke cancer rate" not one single report came up.
  • 93% of prisoners in prison for family violence are male. Half of these are serving a sentence for sexual assault on a family member, most of these sexual assaults were carried out on minor children. Doing an Alta Vista search on the keyword phrase 'hospitalized for second hand smoke' not one single report came up.

THE SMOKING TRUTH:
In 2003, an estimated 171,900 new cases of lung cancer occurred and approximately 157,200 people died from lung cancer. Worldwide, an estimated 1.6 million people lost their lives to violence in 2000. MORE THAN TEN TIMES THE RATE OF LUNG CANCER!!!! Violence committed overwhelmingly by man.

Since 1998, governments at all levels have collected more than $284 BILLION in cigarette taxes and payments from smokers. This does not include revenue from bars! Settlement payments, federal, and state and local taxes on cigarettes for fiscal year 2007 amounted to more than $34.3 BILLION! In 2007, the government pocketed more tobacco revenue per minute ($65,328) than the average smoker brought home in a year ($34,975).
Adult smokers make up about 19.7 percent of the population, yet smokers as a group are the only ones singled out for more and more "sin" taxes.

More than 225 bars and restaurants have recently gone under due to smoking bans. Thousands of others report a loss of revenue of 50% or more. That's thousands upon thousands upon thousands of jobs lost.

YOU THINK SECOND-HAND CIGARETTE SMOKE COST TAX-PAYERS MONEY? HA! SMOKERS PAY DEARLY FOR THEIR RIGHT TO SMOKE! But the criminal man costs tax-payers billions and billions of dollars a year. He costs thousands and thousands of lives each year (more than ten times the rate of lung cancer deaths). He creates millions of victims. He puts fear in every woman and child.

The Cost of man:

• Crime is estimated to create $105 billion in medical expenses, lost earnings, and costs for victim services. Factoring in the intangible costs, such as pain and suffering and a reduced quality of life, brings the total estimated cost of crime to $450 billion annually.
• Victims of violent crime and their families received benefits totaling $442.3 billion in federal fiscal year 2003.
• Reported burglaries resulted in an estimated monetary loss of $3.5 billion annually.
• In 2003, $4.9 billion in property was stolen.
• The total value of stolen motor vehicles in 2003 was $8.6 billion.
• Correctional authorities spend more than $38 billion to maintain the nation's correctional systems in one year. Hmmm, isn't that what cigarette taxes earned for the fiscal year 2007? So smokers are basically paying to keep criminals off of our streets.

Let's admit that men are a far bigger danger to our society (and our health) than a smoker ever will be. Let's BAN men from all public areas and place them all on a permanent house arrest so the women and children of this world can be safe once more to shop, and go to the park, and drive down the roads alone.

Signed,

A Smoker

If you think that this man-BAN is a ridiculous idea, even though we would be banning such an enormous and costly risk to our society (FAR, FAR MORE COSTLY AND DANGEROUS THAN SECOND-HAND SMOKE IN BARS), than why isn't it a silly idea to target a small group of people who smoke in bars? Ya, my smoke may be irritating to you, but so is your cologne, stinky adult diapers, and hot sauce irritating to me. I have to step outside. My food taste like long-shelved AVON and my oxygen gags me of the odor of Tabasco and Depends Diapers!! I also DETEST the smell of coffee and find it unbearable to enter a restaurant in the morning, but I do - even though it makes me short of breath and gasping for oxygen.

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PS: This is just a metaphor. I don't really want to ban men. I love men! Honest I do. I'm just making a point!