> this is an industry entirely devoted to selling an addictive substance that kills, by WHO estimates[1], three million people per year. Something like 75% of a

> this is an industry entirely devoted to selling an addictive substance that kills, by WHO estimates[1], three million people per year. Something like 75% of alcohol is sold to raging alcoholics[2]. I always love hearing about all the things that are more fatal than covid, directly under our control, and otherwise completely tolerated by society. Not that we shouldn't respond to Covid, but that we should probably have proportionate responses to such other things... [1]: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565639 [2]: https://archive.is/zlvBY https://archive.is/zlvBY (WaPo)