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Re:Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' by lunchbox on Monday November 01, 2010 @06:07AM (#1855916)
Tobacco use kills 443,000 Americans each year.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/healt...

For perspective: http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/meh.ro5415.jpg

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Re:Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' by acqq on Monday November 01, 2010 @07:27AM (#1856042)
That's "1 of every 5 deaths in US due to smoking," I've submitted it now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856015

Now how is then smoking less harmful than using some other substance? Or is the evaluation skewed somehow?

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Re:Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' by Alex3917 on Monday November 01, 2010 @08:57AM (#1856241)
I'm pretty sure that data is about ten years old, but otherwise it's correct. Overall drug use kills about 1 in 3 Americans.
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Re:Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' by kevin_morrill on Monday November 01, 2010 @01:14PM (#1857222)
Tobacco at least only kills the person stupid enough to use it. Drunk driving kills thousands of innocent people.
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