http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_he_me/med_global_cancer

Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says
by Mike Stobbe

Reading this article was kind of a reality check for me. Seeing the increasing rate of cancer among the globe's population is horrendous. I don't know, I just wonder what people could possibly be thinking sometimes. They know it hurts them, but they do it either way. It all comes down to the essential question of, 'Why, if it makes me feel good or tranquil, is it considered bad?' This could be the case for multiple things: drinking, drugs, cigarettes, pills, self abuse, pornography, even coffee, ect. It could range from anything really.
It's just crazy to believe that even though people know the consequences they still do it disregarding the facts and sticking to their personal philosophies. I've heard a huge array of excuses from my peers when it comes down to smoking cigarettes, "We all die anyways," "There's nothing else to do in Newtown," "It's easier to get than drugs and alcohol," "It's not as easy to get in trouble for like drinking and drugs are," the list goes on. I guess, me being in the same situation, I can understand where these people are coming from. At first it was just that they wanted to smoke, but gradually it snow balls into something greater and then they start to need it, more and more until they can't stop they don't want to stop either. The reason is hard to understand and hard to explain. Ask any smoker you see why they started, the most popular answers might be because of stress or being around friends all the time who smoke constantly.
It may not seem like a big deal to them, but the numbers are adding up and it's spiraling out of control.