OpinionSeptember 30, 1998
LETTERS: TOBACCO IS STATE'S DEADLIEST DRUG
To the editor: In a recent editorial your headline read "Heroin may be state's deadliest drug." Actually, tobacco remains by far eht state's deadliest drug with over 10,000 annual deaths, vollowed by alcohol (363), heroin 46, cocaine (43), and methamphetamine (11). Nationwide, over 400,000 deaths are caused by tobacco each year, 100,000 by alcohol and some 14,000 by all illegal drugs...
Jim Maginel
To the editor:
In a recent editorial your headline read "Heroin may be state's deadliest drug." Actually, tobacco remains by far eht state's deadliest drug with over 10,000 annual deaths, vollowed by alcohol (363), heroin 46, cocaine (43), and methamphetamine (11). Nationwide, over 400,000 deaths are caused by tobacco each year, 100,000 by alcohol and some 14,000 by all illegal drugs.
JIM MAGINEL
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