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To: John Donahoe who wrote (14591)	12/2/1997 5:46:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

>>> This is nonsense. Tobacco more deadly then cocaine? Where did you get this from? <<< From government statistics. And from working in hospitals. For every person wheeled into emergency with an OD (which usually we could treat successfully) there were 300 upstairs breathing their last gasps with lung cancer and heart disease and emphysema and intestinal cancer and so on. Also, before you call something nonsense you should bother to do some research. The figures on drug deaths are available and tabulated every year. I get them from Science magazine, because I am an AAAS member, but I'm sure you can find them on the Internet. There were in the last year I checked in the US, about 800,000 tobacco-related deaths (most of the cancer and half the circulatory system deaths are from tobacco), about 100,000 alcohol-related deaths, and then the figures go way down. A couple thousand from cocaine, an couple thousand from heroin, and few thousand from crack, and so on. Check it out for yourself. Chaz