Nonsense.  If we didn&#x27;t have greater security for air travel aircraft would rain from the skies.  And the sheer devastation to global economies would have no imaginable measure.  Is security perfect? Far from it. But it is far better than doing nothing.<p>I think you might be blind to a whole layer of the infrastructure because you never have visibility into it.  I do.  I own a company that conducts business internationally.  Passenger aircraft don&#x27;t just carry passengers.  Before the extensive security measures implemented progressively after 9-11 taking down a plane with cargo would have almost been child&#x27;s play.  Today, not so.  I don&#x27;t know how much you travel.  If you do, be thankful there are people who did their best to ensure someone isn&#x27;t shipping an incendiary device on the same plane you and your family happen to be on.<p>The business of attempting to create equivalency between deaths due to smoking or heat disease and terrorism is simply laughable at best.  There is no equivalence and nothing prevents anyone from addressing them as the separate and unrelated problems they are.