XPost: uk.politics.drugs, uk.legal   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:24:22 +0100, "Aidy"  wrote:   
      
   >"Dr John Watson"  wrote in message   
   >news:7b3maoF21cv3kU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >   
   >> Has it not crossed that pair of brain cells that the mortality rate of   
   >> diamorphine is low relative to alcohol and tobacco because diamorphine is   
   >> a safer drug?   
      
   >When did a cigarette last kill someone?  I mean smoking it, and dying there   
   >and then as a result of the active ingedients.   
      
   Normal use of tobacco will kill and injure a large number of people   
   who use tobacco while normal use of heroin will not kill or   
   significantly injure people who use heroin..   
      
   >Now can I put it to you that less people die from heroin as less people take   
   >it as it is illegal?  Further than more people die from cigs cos more people   
   >smoke cos it's legal.  Is that equally too hard for you to entertain?   
      
   A group of people who used recreational doses of heroin over a long   
   period of time would have far fewer health casualities than a similar   
   group of tobacco smokers. That is because tobacco use is more   
   dangerous for health than heroin use.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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