On: Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin'

[acqq]

That's "1 of every 5 deaths in US due to smoking," I've submitted it now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1856015

Now how is then smoking less harmful than using some other substance? Or is the evaluation skewed somehow?

[Alex3917 → acqq]

I'm pretty sure that data is about ten years old, but otherwise it's correct. Overall drug use kills about 1 in 3 Americans.