Which is worse, tobacco or alcohol?

Question

The two are non-combined.
Assume consumption from a relative overall health standpoint.

Answer 1

tobacco

Answer 2

No doubt tobacco. Although both can lead to disease and death. I think the main reason that tobacco is worse, is that you can drink responsibly as many people do, by having a glass of wine, one or two drinks once in a while.
Very few people smoke responsibly, they seem to be addicted and smoke constantly. So they are at risk for disease and death because they smoke irresponsibly. Constant smoking causes no immediate impairment the way drinking too much does, so it is easier to abuse it until you are diseased, it is almost acceptable...whereas alcohol abuse is not. That is what makes it worse, the acceptance of the over use as being ok.

Answer 3

Tobacco

Answer 4

Alcohol is one big problem for the person who uses it and the family who has to put up with it and all their baggage. From the top of the head to the bottom of their feet the alcohol destroys something ....from brain to the blood that circulates throughout the body. Nothing is worse than someone who has had too much to drink and behaves irrationally. Think of all the people killed on the highway from people who had too much to drink. It's an on going problem. Family members are hurt in many ways from the alcoholic who abuses them verbally and physically....or even if they do not touch their family members they are doing it just by being drunk. They are not being normal and taking part in family life as they could. It's a dead end way of living with no good benefits...when it comes to Tobacco it affects your lungs, makes you smell terrible...causes cancer and much much more but to me Alcohol is the killer of the whole family not just the drinker....

Answer 5

Tobacco.

Answer 6

Tobacco.

Answer 7

Tobacco.

Answer 8

Alcohol

Answer 9

A small amount of alcohol every day or week is less of a health risk than tobacco use every day.

Answer 10

Alcohol, without a doubt. I've never heard of anybody killing somebody else because of tobacco, while you're forever reading about vehicular manslaughter in which alcohol was a factor, or somebody killing someone because they were drunk.

Answer 11

I don't actually smoke now I watched my beautiful mum die from Emphysema four years ago, I stopped because of what it did to her and my husband ended up in hospital through a smoking induced illness, my husband and I have both been off the ciggies for over four years now, never again. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years when I met my husband, when I was expecting our son the smell of alcohol made me feel sick, so I have never bothered with it. My friends brother died through getting blind drunk one night, he inhaled his own *o**t, his whole family never recovered from it, he was 25 years old.