Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet

Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by version_five on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:25PM (#36925374)

I think social media is worse for society than tobacco. Tobacco shortens peoples lives, social media is destroying society. We'd ultimately be better living harmoniously but only until seventy than in civil war and mass upheaval.

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by casey2 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:29PM (#36925413)

Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US post social media: 0

Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US pre- social media: 1

I'll take social media and quit cigarettes.

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by gtvwill on Saturday July 29, 2023 @06:51PM (#36925628)

Lol if you take the number of annual gun deaths in the US each year, you arguably are still in a civil war. 40000+ of your own killed each year just from guns alone. You kill more of yourselves each year than was lost in the entire gulf War of 1990 to 91.

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by lotsoweiners on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:04PM (#36926597)

But a majority of those gun deaths are suicides not murders: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-....

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Re:Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed ca... by MrYellowP on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:20PM (#36925863)

You make no sense. You know that.

How many years are covered by "pre social media" and how many by "post social media" ? The difference is significant.

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