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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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