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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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Someone needs to write a really good history of how quarantines and public health measures worked in pre-WWI America. It was a time when public health measures may well have had more to do with lengthening people's life span than pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and personal healthcare.
