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New Zealand’s next govt to scrap tobacco law that ban smoking for next generation (www.firstpost.com)
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National’s unaffordable tax cuts to be funded by… (checks notes) …giving more people lung cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It is very unlikely that he would have skewed the statistics, the immense weight of the people killed early by smoking would overwhelm the very small number of outliers.

The number of years lost by individuals is determined by a huge number of factors, but smoking has been shown to really drag down the number of years that you are likely to achieve.