{"id":1786,"date":"2012-11-13T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:56:22","slug":"100-million-deaths-in-the-20th-century-thanks-to-the-cigarette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/100-million-deaths-in-the-20th-century-thanks-to-the-cigarette\/","title":{"rendered":"100 million deaths in the 20th century &#8211; thanks to the cigarette!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from cancer, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause &#8211; tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation,&#8221; says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. &#8220;It killed about 100 million people in the 20th Century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the article by the BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20042217\">James Buchanan Duke: Father of the modern cigarette<\/a> and their video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00ylyg7\">Why we smoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they will help you avoid the devil weed.\u00a0 (Though I&#8217;m no angel having smoked for a decade and still will puff a cheroot at a party to be a bit rebellious!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from cancer, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause &#8211; tobacco. &#8220;The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation,&#8221; says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. &#8220;It killed about 100 million people in the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/100-million-deaths-in-the-20th-century-thanks-to-the-cigarette\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100 million deaths in the 20th century &#8211; thanks to the cigarette!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-sO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}