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Smoking has already killed far more people this century than in the entire 20th century
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Yeah there's 8x the people and we die from other things less.
Plus there are probably loads of smoking-related deaths in the 20th century that weren't attributed to smoking.
And a lot of smoking in the 20th century that only caused death this century.