A character in Christopher Buckley's 1994 novel Thank You for Smoking (now a film) quotes a then-current prediction in the medical journal the Lancet: "[In the] next ten years, 250 million people in the industrialized world are going to die from smoking--one in five." It's now 12 years later. I certainly hope the Lancet's prediction--which I am guessing was bona fide, and not an invention of the novelist--proved to be overpessimistic. In the best estimate of the experts (and by "experts" I do not mean tobacco spokespersons), how many lives were lost to smoking during that ten-year period?
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Pith perfect.
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