What do you know, Smoking is good pt1
I just found this website that tells a bunch of facts about the world that people really don't want to hear about. I will just give you a short summary of some of the stuff you might care about. As you may or may not know, this kind of topic is dear to my heart. The first: World Wide Life Expectancy.
I just want to point out, Canadians lives longer than we Americans. Okay, I guess that I can understand that, but what about Australia?! They have the highest concentration of deadly, toxic and venomous animals and invertebrates in the world. That didn't seem to put a damper on their life expenctancey average. WTF! All we have here are crazy people with their NRA patches, drugs, and the occasional Jackass reinactment, right? Most of the other countries I understand but I thought that America would be a little more green and a little less chartruse. Also, I don't know if it's just where I live, but old people just don't seem to die or something. They are everywhere.
Oh, just one more thing before we move on, I would just like to point out, how do they have no information for Greenland? I am sure that someone there has the internet and could have been reached. Maji deshou?! Take your job a little more seriously.
*Edit*
Here's a graph that shows population density concentrations as well so the above graph can be put into perspective.
World Population
Okay, here is a no brainer. But, suprise! Asia is leading the way in overpopulation. So, don't let anyone make you feel bad for having kids. Infact, if we continue at the current rate, the population in the US will continually decline. As of 1999 (I couldn't find more up to date info and I didn't really look that hard, anyway) the US Population growth rate: 0.85%. Thank you advanced technolodgy and women's lib for allowing women to have jobs and prefer a career to having a large family. Either way, I am just putting this one in so that I can make my next point:
Cigarettes
Okay, these are a little harder to read. Basically the first says that the amount of cigarettes produced world wide has gone up a lot in 40 years (up about 3.8 trillion packs produced a year from 1960). Hm... well, that makes sense if you consider that according to the graph above world population has increased by about 2 billion in about the fourty years we are considering.
Here is what gets me. China. Shame on you. Haven't you learned anything from the US? You should be ashamed of yourself. Give me those cigarettes right now, young world power. I guess that seeing that Asia is the largest population growth category I can understand that you have a lot more people to ID before you sell your product but... I guess that is why China is slated to become the next world power. All the tax money they are getting from cigarettes to fund the government.
I am proud that Americans are reducing their smoking, although it is probably directly due to the decrease in our world power ranking. I think it has to be due to all of the smokers pulling down our life expentancy a whole rating into chartruse. All our smokers are dead and dying. Take that, China. See what you have to look forward to? Going down a color grade on the world wide life expectancy charts leads you into a lower world power status. Can't wait to see you there.
Oh, and one other thing. How do we not have anything on Russia until the 90's? If we don't have any info on them, maybe we should find a country that does keep records and put them up instead. Like, England or Japan for example? Hey, just an idea.
Then there is the sin tax to consider. Wait for it. I know you can't, but you are going to have to wait.