When they did the testing on these drugs they found out that alcohol was indeed a worse addiction then tobacco.

the physical harm to the user, the drug's potential for addiction, and the impact on society of drug use.

Heroin and cocaine were ranked most dangerous, followed by barbiturates and street methadone. Alcohol was the fifth-most harmful drug and tobacco the ninth most harmful. Cannabis came in 11th, and near the bottom of the list was Ecstasy.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/MISC/addictiv.htm

"To rank today's commonly used drugs by their addictiveness, we asked experts to consider two questions: How easy is it to get hooked on these substances and how hard is it to stop using them? Although a person's vulnerability to drug also depends on individual traits -- physiology, psychology, and social and economic pressures -- these rankings reflect only the addictive potential inherent in the drug. The numbers below are relative rankings, based on the experts' scores for each substance:


100 Nicotine
99 Ice, Glass (Methamphetamine smoked)
98 Crack
93 Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine injected)
85 Valium (Diazepam)
83 Quaalude (Methaqualone)
82 Seconal (Secobarbital)
81 Alcohol
80 Heroin
78 Crank (Amphetamine taken nasally)
72 Cocaine
68 Caffeine
57 PCP (Phencyclidine)
21 Marijuana
20 Ecstasy (MDMA)
18 Psilocybin Mushrooms
18 LSD
18 Mescaline

Research by John Hastings
Relative rankings are definite, numbers given are (+/-)1%



ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/AA71/AA71.htm

Alcohol and tobacco1 are among the top causes of preventable deaths in the United States (1). Moreover, these substances often are used together: Studies have found that people who smoke are much more likely to drink, and people who drink are much more likely to smoke (2). Dependence on alcohol and tobacco also is correlated: People who are dependent on alcohol are three times more likely then those in the general population to be smokers, and people who are dependent on tobacco are four times more likely than the general population to be dependent on alcohol (3).


The link between alcohol and tobacco has important implications for those in the alcohol treatment field. Many alcoholics smoke, putting them at high risk for tobacco-related complications including multiple cancers, lung disease, and heart disease (i.e., cardiovascular disease) (4). In fact, statistics suggest that more alcoholics die of tobacco-related illness than die of alcohol-related problems (5). Also, questions remain as to the best way to treat these co-occurring addictions; some programs target alcoholism first and then address tobacco addiction, whereas others emphasize abstinence from drinking and smoking simultaneously. Effective treatment hinges on a better understanding of how these substances—and their addictions—interact.


Understanding just how alcohol and tobacco interact is challenging. Because co-use is so common, and because both substances work on similar mechanisms in the brain, it’s proving difficult to tease apart individual and combined effects of these drugs. In this Alcohol Alert, we examine the latest research on the interactions between these two substances, including the prevalence of co-occurring tobacco and alcohol use disorders (AUDs), some of the health consequences of combined use, biological mechanisms and genetic vulnerabilities to co-use and dependence, barriers to the treatment of tobacco dependence in patients with alcohol and other drug (AOD) use disorders,2 therapies that are proving effective in treating co-occurring tobacco and alcohol dependence in depressed patients, and treatment interventions for adolescent patients with co-occurring tobacco and AOD use disorders.

If they ban smoking everywhere, where do you do it?

Where does it end? Even smoking on your own home may be an issue one day.

The day that happens is the day that the U.S. becomes no longer a Democratic nation. When the gov starts intruding into peoples civil liberties like that, then it will be the beginning of the end of Democracy in this nation and the start of Totalitarism.

Your right this is America and others do have rights for instance children have the right not to be forced to breathe in your tobacco smoke

You mean like making drivers wear seat belts and motorcyclists wear helmets? You mean like cities telling businesses they can no longer allow their customers to smoke even when the larger majority do it (such as bars, smoke shops etc)?

Well the gov has a right to est. gov safety regulations on roads considering they are gov owned. If the gov didn't control the roadways there would be no regulations at all and it would be utter chaos.

Those places are in industrial zoning areas which are est. by the gov to allow companies zoning permits on that industrial land. Its a little diff then residential zoning areas, because unlike residential zoning areas, industrial zoning areas have to obey by gov regulations. So if they pass a regulation on that industrial zone those companies have to obey by it.

Which is a good thing that every industrial zone has to obey by gov regulations or else you could have industries for example just dumping their waste products anywhere on their land, instead of having to obey by the regulations that the gov has set forth for byproducts to be disposed of properly.

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought "we the people" who payed the taxes that fixed the roads might have a little say so.

According to the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration, over the past 10 years, safety belts have prevented some 55,600 deaths; 1,300,000 injuries and saved more than $105 billion in costs. Among passenger vehicle occupants over 4 years old, safety belts saved an estimated 10,414 lives in 1996.

Higher Seat Belt Use Could Save Many Lives, Study Shows as 'Click It or Ticket' National Enforcement Campaign Kicks Off

An estimated 1,652 lives could be saved and 22,372 serious injuries avoided each year if seat belt use rates rose to 90 percent in every state, according to a new report. The research, based on 2007 data, also estimates seat belts saved a stunning 15,147 lives that year. “Wearing a seat belt costs nothing and yet it’s the single most effective traffic safety device ever invented,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The study was released May 14 on the launch of the “Click It or Ticket” nationwide enforcement campaign (May 18-31). Speaking at a Virginia high school, LaHood underscored the worrisome reality that seat belt use rates are relatively low among teenagers. Of 4,540 16-to-20 year old passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2007, 2,502 were unbelted at the time of the crash. Teen belt use is especially low at night. In 2007, nearly two-thirds of the 16-to-20 year olds killed in nighttime crashes were unbelted.

Boatswamper, I take it you dont smoke, if you do then you have to be naive to the BS we smokers have to deal with.

Oh I am aware, and the complaint about health problems is nothing short of BS. An annoyance I can understand, but healthwise and also rejecting the rights of us smokers seems to be the case these days rather than a fair understanding that both have rights.

Oh and one more thing, I used to be a antismoker not long ago, so I know both sides of the arugment.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) did die at 72 from angina...mind you his habit was 40 cigars a day...40! 72 is a good run for that age...he cut back to 4 a day when the angina kicked in

living to be 72 back then was is like living to be 100 today that's how rare it was when the avg life expectancy back in 1910 the year that he died was 48 and that's with him smoking all of those years too.

Seat belt and helmet laws are nothing but ways for cities to make money. Nothing more, nothing less.

Last words of the foolish...."Hey y'all, watchiss!!