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Smoking kills 40k people, per day, in the US? That number seems off. I don't think there are that many births in a day so we'd be losing a lot of people.
by bsagdiyev 7y ago
Smoking kills 40k people, per day, in the US? That number seems off. I don't think there are that many births in a day so we'd be losing a lot of people.
- cypherpunks01 7y agoWhoops, misread a stat! Corrected, it's 1,300
- WhompingWindows 7y agoYou're performing numerator analysis there. You're comparing deaths irrespective of number of users, never mind their duration/frequency of use. For smokers, this would be pack-years, which is the number of daily packs times the number of years. There's the sheer volume of smokers, probably 10x the number of vapers? Hard to say, I'm not well read on the literature. In any case, comparing numerators here is not good epidemiology, as smokers are far more numerous and have used for far longer/heavier use.