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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 23 Tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs |
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| | Tobacco kills more Americans every week than cocaine, crack, heroin, and illicit "hard |
| | drugs" do in an entire year. |
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| | "Although tobacco kills nearly 500,000 Americans every year, the federal government |
| | spends only about $100 million a year on tobacco control. Yet it spends $12 billion to |
| | fight illicit drug use, which is responsible for only 10,000 to 20,000 deaths a year." |
| | There is $2.5 billion allocated for AIDS (34,000 deaths) and $300 million for alcohol |
| | abuse (105,000 deaths). |
| | JAMA, May 11, 1994, p. 1390 (Stanton Glantz) |
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| | The mortality caused by cigarette use is probably at least 6 times greater than that for |
| | alcohol, and nearly 75 times greater than that from all illegal or illicit drugs combined. |
| | Nicotine Addiction, p. 105 |
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| | About 9000 deaths a year in the US are attributed to illicit use of drugs. If indirectly |
| | related factors such as homicides, accidents, infections with HIV, and hepatitis are |
| | added, the total rises to about 20,000 per year. |
| | JAMA, November 10, 1993, p. 2207 |
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| | The Premier "smokeless cigarette" developed by RJ Reynolds can be used as a |
| | delivery device for crack cocaine. Partly because of this adverse publicity, it was |
| | never put on the market. |
| | JAMA, January 6, 1989, p. 41 |
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