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Opinion
Coogan: Regulators should double taxes and age limits on cigarettes
“We should have a tilted playing field and everything that you do for like to that continuum risk, like everything that you, every reg, every new regulation that you put on the industry, you should just double it and put that on cigarettes. Like cigarettes shou…”
John Coogan Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 41:20 John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Smoking caused more US deaths than COVID during peak pandemic
“More people died of cigarettes and smoking related, you know, diseases during COVID than from COVID. Like, I think the peak COVID deaths were 430 430,000 that year and smoking killed 460 that year.”
John Coogan Jul 24, 2024 ▶ 39:42 John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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