Who are you more afraid of? Terrorists or Tobacco?

People have been killing people since the beginning of time.

Here's a few lists I put together during some "down time." Whether we humans are killing out of jealousy or self protection, for sport, or for food, or just because someone may be different, it has always been part of our human nature.

Click on these links:
(There's nothing scholarly here, just more stupid unverified information from a simple Google search.)

Genocides

Wars

American Deaths from Terrorism

List of firearm deaths by Country

Annual Deaths from Tobacco

Annual Deaths from Preventable Causes

Annual Suicide rates by country

And Finally:
The National Vital Statistics Report on Deaths (2013)

It's not that I'm complacent about terrorism, war, genocide, and generally wicked mean people, I'm just concerned that as an "advanced society" we have chosen to focus on individuals that cause events that cause hundreds of deaths each year, rather than events that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year!

If human lives are truly sacred, only on this planet, and nowhere else in the universe, doesn't it seem a little incongruent to get upset at a confused bunch of people who kill out of hate and fear, rather than to get upset at a bunch of really super rich corporations who make tobacco products that kill almost half a million Americans each year???

What is really important?

Campy out