And 60,000 deaths per year in Canada from food*. My uncle has smoked 2-3 packs a day from when he was 15 years old. He is 70 now. Somewhere between one and two

And 60,000 deaths per year in Canada from food*. My uncle has smoked 2-3 packs a day from when he was 15 years old. He is 70 now. Somewhere between one and two million cigarettes in his lifetime. Many health issues, of course, but could you eat million burgers or drink a million cans of coke in a lifetime and end up with less health issues? (No, you couldn’t: that’s something like 8,000 calories a day every day for 80 years, you die of obesity by age 35. I’m not even completely sure you could drink that many cups of water, 3 packs a day is 90 cups of water or 5.5 gallons, perilously close to the ~6 gallon maximum rate of healthy kidneys working 24/7.) My point is not that smoking is better for you than heroin or soft drinks or burgers or coffee or water. It’s that the dose makes the poison, and we tend to legislate based as much on “lethal dose” as on “total attributable deaths”. *: Adding diabetes and heart disease together from https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310039401&pickMembers%5B0%5D=2.1&pickMembers%5B1%5D=3.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=2020&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2020&referencePeriods=20200101%2C20200101 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=131003...