Drug War Failings of 2003
January 15, 2004
Alternet is running an article called “Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003” going through some of the most egregious examples of the War on (Some) Drugs failing miserably.
Number four stands out the most to me:
Switzerland’s Addiction Research Institute calls tobacco the number one killer addiction, responsible for 71 percent, or 4.9 million of the world’s 7 million annual drug-related deaths. About 1.8 million deaths, or 26 percent, were attributed to the use of alcohol, while illicit drugs caused about 223,000, or 3 percent, of all worldwide drug-related deaths.
All illicit drugs combined caused only 3 percent of total drug-related deaths worldwide.
Posted at 4:56 pm.
