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billyvillain

Heres some figures someone posted on the Erowid vaults. I will not attest to their validity.

From: hagerp@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Date: 7 Sep 91 19:25:39 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: For your perusal -- U.S. Surgeon General's Actuarial info

The following is a list of deaths by substance for 1990.

Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . 360,000 [legal]
Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000 [legal]
Prescribed drugs . . . . . . . 18,675 [legal]
Caffeine . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800 [legal]
Cocaine . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,390 [illegal]
Heroin . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,147 [illegal]
Aspirin . . . . . . . . . . . . 986 [legal]
Marijuana . . . . . . . . . . . 0 [illegal]