
The past, present and future of nicotine addiction | Mitch Zeller
TED Health
Smoking Kills More People Than We Thought Possible
Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol aids, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. 480 thousand americans every year are killed by smoking - completely preventable deaths. The surgeon general concluded that five point six million children alive in the united states in 20 14 will die prematurely later in life because of cigarettes. What can we do to reverse this trajectory of disease and death? Well we have an interesting guide to help unravel issues like, how did the cigarette as we know it come to be? What is the true nature of the tobacco and cigarette business? How did the industry behave in the historically unregulated market place? And our guide is previously secret, internal documents from the tobacco