How much more dangerous are illegal drugs like marijuana & cocaine than cigarettes?

Question

I need some statistics comparing several dangerous drugs to cigarettes for a report for school. Plus any links to where you got the info? Thanks a bunch!!! =)

Answer 1

Well let's see. For one thing you can go to jail for possessing illegal drugs, so for they won't jail you for cigarettes. Constant use if illegal drugs such as cocaine, and cannabis, will destroy your body slowly over time, or perhaps kill you if at any point you did one too many hits, and or pills, or any illegal drug, you just never know. It could be your very first attempt at these drugs or your 10th or whatever, you just don't know! Just watch some T.V. specials, such as Dateline, or CNN, the latest craze they keep talking about is meth or crystal(?). Have you ever seen a picture of these addicts..not pretty. Also is it worth losing everything you have, and especially your family to get "high"? Now I am not saying cigarettes are OK, it seems nicotine is the hardest drug to stop. Of course there is always lung cancer from smoking. I have no statistics just an opinion. You can go online google illegal drugs or cigarettes and I am sure they will have many statics. Either way both category's are not good for you. Too many kids fall into the THIS IS SO COOL CATEGORY..It's not. IT MORE COOL, to be healthy and alive.
Debi

Answer 2

Ok first off you need to take marijuana out of that equation and realize the two are not related, marijuana isn't even really a drug, its a slang term for one of the most beneficial plants on the planet (hemp)

see:

http://www.soop.ca/potfacts/

Cocaine is a stimulant, a stimulant that is hard on yoursystem and taxing on the emotions, if you are stimulated for too long your body crashes.

Cigarettes are the most dangerous of all drugs as they were developed to be addictive. You can buy them on the corner and no one tells you you cant.

Answer 3

Why? nicely they are not however the government cant legislate in a manner that would desire to enable them to be taxed and controlled as an marketplace or import so that they are not criminal for this reason they're greater good to get and are addictive which you will desire to get them via committing a criminal offense for the money to purchase them isn't lots a stretch for the addicted seeing as how they're already breaking the regulation via making use of them interior the 1st place and that's the genesis of the parable that they are risky or a minimum of greater risky than cigarettes (an oppressively over regulated, taxed and legislated product and marketplace)

Answer 4

It depends on how much you use it and I think it depends on the person.

I bet more people die from cigarettes than from cocaine. But cocaine can be dangerous because if you take it and you're not ready for it, you can die.

But with cigarettes, they don't have much negative effects upon your mental health, only on physical health.

Smoking is still really bad though. It really is an addiction.