Annual Causes of Deaths in the United States
Tobacco = 430,700
Alcohol = 110,640
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs = 32,000
Suicide = 30,575
Homicides = 18,272
All Licit and Illicit Drug-induced Deaths = 16, 926
Anti-inflammatory Drugs (such as aspirin) = 7,600
Marijuana = 0
Excerpted from Common Sense for Drug Policy. www.csdp.org and www.drugwarfacts.org. Statistics gathered and analyzed between 1982 and 1998.
J.Porter