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Dead Wrong: Tobacco That Saves Lives?

Smoking kills. According to the Global Burden of Disease project, more than 5 million lives have been lost to smoking every year since 1990. So we should avoid all tobacco then? Dead Wrong.

Johan Norberg — May 20, 2020

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    Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of, "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future."

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