22nd Century Group Inc (XXII)

[stevo99]

Comparing Pinto to cigarettes is apples and oranges in terms of causing deaths of its users....

"Reports range from 27 to 180 deaths as a result of rear-impact-related fuel tank fires in the Pinto, but given the volume of more than 2.2 million vehicles sold, the death rate was not substantially different from that of vehicles by Ford's competitors."

"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers."

So the whole pinto fiasco represents 5 hours of the impact that smoking has every day of every year....puts things in perspective doesn't it???

Put another way, annual smoking impact is equivalent to 8,760 pinto like fiascos every year....can you imagine the uproar!!

How many more people have to die before the government takes action?