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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14596)	12/2/1997 6:09:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 24154

I think there's a simple language difference here. One of you is considering the danger from a single episode of cocaine use or tobacco use. One of you is considering the effect of usage on the nation as a whole. In the first case, I'll risk a pack of Marlboro's over a line of coke any day of the year. In the second case, tobacco is the killer. See? That's the problem with non-face to face communication with many different people whom you don't know in real life. Always assume the best on everyone's part. Hugs all around, Bearded One

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14596)	12/5/1997 1:09:00 PM
From: John Donahoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

OFF Topic: RE: "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." Chaz, it's not debatable that more people die of tobacco related diaseases then people that OD from drugs. But to use the phrase "more deadly" can confuse young people who may be tempted to try these drugs. Strychnine is more deadly then tobacco. But tobacco related diaseases cause more deaths by far then death by Strycnine poisoning. Cocaine, heroine and other assorted recreational drugs can cause sudden death. You can OD on Coke. You can't OD on tobacco. Tobacco has long term health effects. They cause diasease. As a result of the diaseases people don't live as long as they might otherwise. Didn't basketball star Len Bias drop dead in the midst of a game because of a cocaine induced heart attack? What was the average age differance of the people in the OD ward versus the people in the cancer and cardiac ward upstairs? Drugs can kill young people suddenly tobacco can't. Tobacco is health/diasease related. JD P.S. I know of no scientific study that compares the long term health effects of tobacco use versus illicit drug use.