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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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