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Tobacco kills roughly ten times more people than opioids. Alcohol kills about twice as many people as opioids. So yeah, definitely a whole different ballpark.
by nate_meurer 6y ago
Tobacco kills roughly ten times more people than opioids.
Alcohol kills about twice as many people as opioids.
So yeah, definitely a whole different ballpark.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
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- Rebelgecko 6y agoI think for the comparison it would be better to use what percentage of users are killed. For example even though fentanyl kills something like 50% fewer people than alcohol, alcohol probably has several orders of magnitude more users. If fentanyl was as common I suspect it would kill more people than alcohol