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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (476092)10/15/2003 11:01:00 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 769670
 
"That is the result of the number of users relative to other drugs and not a valid comparison of let's say the average tobacco user vs. the average crack user."

>>> Perhaps that explains it all... and perhaps it doesn't.

>>> I'd like to see the 'harm' estimates normalized for the number of users.

>>> AS far as the addictive profile... I know that medicine places tobacco right up there with opiates for it's addictive profile... and I believe ranks it only slightly behind barbituates for 'ease of addiction'.