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MomoXenosaga on April 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brave disables Chromium FLoC features

Smokers dying early saves the State a ton of money, they did the math on this. Getting people to stop smoking is about morality.

sofixa on April 11, 2021 [–]

Care to share the math? Prevailing opinion in Western Europe is that smokers cost a lot of money to the state and taxpayers due to them usually not dying directly but struggling with illnesses for years, which cost money to treat.

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