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By my count around a third of Americans die from drug misuse and drug-related causes: http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-statistic-you-ne

By my count around a third of Americans die from drug misuse and drug-related causes: http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-statistic-you-never-hear-about-drugs.html http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2014/05/the-one-sta... And that was written before this study came out, which estimated that there may be an additional 60,000 annual tobacco-related deaths that are not being counted by the CDC: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa1407211 http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa1407211

maxerickson 10y ago
I think given the way people reason about such things you should probably advertise it as 20% of Americans die from tobacco use and then argue that this should be considered together with other drug related causes. I'm not arguing that tobacco is anything other than a drug, I'm saying that emphasizing it in things like your first paragraph here will reduce the number of people that come to the wrong conclusion.