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Perspective on drug deaths

Submitted January 14, 2005 - 7:55 pm by Andrew Grice (not verified)

What you've heard is certainly true.  Compare these numbers:
(courtesy of Clifford A. Schaffer and published online at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/basicf
ax.htm )
"The number of drug deaths in the US in a typical year is as follows:
Tobacco kills about 390,000.
Alcohol kills about 80,000.
Cocaine kills about 2,200.
Heroin kills about 2,000.
Aspirin kills about 2,000.
Marijuana kills 0. There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in  US history.
All illegal drugs combined kill about 4,500 people per year, or about one percent of the  number killed by alcohol and tobacco. Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the  people killed by all of the illegal drugs in the last century.
Source: NIDA Research Monographs"

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