Malnutrition now impacts 15% of the world population -- more than one billion people.
Every year, as many as three million children die from hunger-related causes.

Smoking kills more people in the US than murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol combined. Worldwide one billion deaths are predicted in this century from tobacco.

Half of the world population - 3.5 billion people - still live on less than $4 a day.
The wealthiest 1% in this world ($110 trillion) now control 65X what the bottom 50% have ($1.7 trillion).

We must cut back on things that are not necessary. We then will not need to work as hard to sustain them, and will have money left over to help make this world a better place.