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Cigarettes: 121,000 deaths a year; Alcohol: 33,000 deaths a year; Ecstasy: between twenty and one hundred deaths in the last ten years

Toby Manning, Jockey Slut, August 1998

CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL KILL 400 TIMES MORE PEOPLE EVERY YEAR THAN DEATHS FROM ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS PUT TOGETHER. SO WHY ARE THEY LEGAL WHILE OTHER DRUGS ARE NOT? WORDS: TOBY MANNING

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