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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Total tobacco related US mortality is about 500,000 per year, all in (cancer, heart disease, etc.). But much of that results from past use - if you banned tobacco today the number would decline to zero only over 40-50 years. You'd basically get 10 years of life expectancy for the portion of the population that smokes back.
Max. deaths from this round with the TrumpVirus approaches about 3 million.
Assuming high numbers on both, even if you fully eliminate all tobacco consumption, it would likely take more than a decade to save as many lives as we can with good management of this problem.
It's a big fuckin problem.
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There are also all of the people who will die of other things because the healthcare system cannot take care of them. The ICUs are usually full of people who are there for a variety of reasons. CV surgery patients, major trauma patients, some other infectious disease patients, patients in renal failure etc. And there are also the delays of elective surgeries and procedures which won't be as "elective" as time goes on and they're not taken care of.
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