• What about cigarettes?

  • What about cigarettes?

    That should come under human-caused deaths mostly in the self-harm category, but suicide is obviously not in the count since that's running at about 800,000 a year before CV19, and many smart people think lockdown is going to provoke a spike over the usual background rate.

    Some estimates of passive smoking deaths are of the order of 600,000 per year, and they are every bit as avoidable and human-caused as automotive incidents. On the other hand, the "car" count in the infographic is obviously only counting road traffic incidents, as pollution from automotive transport sources is credited with shortening about three times that many lives every year.

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