Cigarette smoking kills nearly half a million Americans each year

Evidence

This section analyzes the moral disengagement by the tobacco, lead, vinyl chloride, and silicon-producing industries. Cigarette smoking causes almost half a million deaths annually in the United States alone. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1612

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete mortality figure that could anchor the argumentative frame about harm magnitudes versus trivialized sacrifice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1612