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>> Old people dying of heart disease or cancer or whatever is not actionable

"Almost half of cancer deaths are preventable" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02355-x

600,000 people die of cancer per year, 40,000 people die in automobile accidents. Focusing on 40,000 automobile accidents to the exclusion of focusing on 300,000 preventable cancer deaths does not math.



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