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Is alcohol as harmful as tobacco?
In "Phishing for Phools", George Akerlof and Robert Shiller suggest that: …the harms of alcohol could be comparable to the harms of cigarettes, affecting not just 3 or 4 percent of the population, as a chronic life-downer, but, rather, affecting 15 to 30 percent; the higher number especially if we also include the alcoholics' most […]
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