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Cigarette sales and lung cancer mortality in the US (wikimedia.org)
16 points by elsewhen on July 15, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


This is the graph from this article:

https://ourworldindata.org/smoking-big-problem-in-brief

Which goes on to say that the people knowingly selling addictive painful death to Americans simply pivoted to selling addictive painful death to people in poorer nations.


So this is what happens when facts win out...


It also shows that eliminating a cause is one hell of a lot more effective than trying to effect cures.




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