What kills more, smoking or drinking?

when they were going to raise taxes on cigerettes, i wrote to several senaters, and asked why they were going after alchahol instead, i was told more people die from smoking than alchahol, aids and something else i cant remember at the moment...now, this just does not sound right to me...everyday all over the world people are being killed by drunk drivers, drunken fighting, drunken suicides, drinking affects brain cells, smoking does not. i never heard of someone getting run over by a smoker. police being called to disrupt a smoking party ( i am not talking drugs) so why the attack on smokers and yet completely leaving the drinkers alone...it just doesnt make any sense to me.

fraginal...what about those people who die of scirossis of the liver and those who end up as dibetics due to drinking?

Drinking alcohol is socially acceptable, especially where laws are made and by those who make the laws. Smoking has become generally unacceptable because other people can smell the smoke and it offends them. If people died of second-hand smoke, my generation would be gone, and the generation after that. Everybody, and I mean everybody smoked and kids were subjected to it as well. I quit, after 63 years of non-stop when I had trouble breathing. But, I do not drink because I don't like it and it makes idiots out of nice people...and it makes dead people out of careless drunk drivers!! Smoking doesn't make anybody driving impaired!

they are both bad

On one cigarette box, theres a chart stating that smoking is the number one killer in Canada.
Not quite sure about the US though.

Smoking is more deadly since many people die from lung cancer.

smokes by far.

Its not the drinks or the cigerettes.. its the taxes..

ABORTION.

The problem is that smoking as well as being anti-social (to asthmatics etc) is 50 times more likely to lead to heart disease (coronary or non coronary) than a non smoker. The chances between drinker and non drinker are significantly lower.
Moderate drinking is considered to be good for the heart, whereas moderate smoking has no health benefits.
The social problems from excessive drinking are definitely a problem though. These can't be tackled from a medical standpoint, but by government policy and restrictions.

Don't believe the crap the politicians feed you. More people die from alcohol than all other drugs combined. The reason they don't go after alcohol is that they get a lot of money from the alcohol producers with the understanding that if we contribute to your campaign then you are to make sure that other drugs stay illegal and alcohol stays legal. The tobacco lobby is not as big as it used to be. The tobacco companies are starting to diversify and get into other products because they know that tobacco is on the way out. It is also more politically correct to bash tobacco than it is alcohol because more people drink, especially politicians.

Well definitely both of them because it's very dangerous of our health and we should to be aware it when it comes about smoking and drinking and I know that some people that want to stopped it of being smoker or drunker but that they didn't to do it and does not to avoid it about to drinking and smoking while that they just to hanging out with their friends and even that they want to escaped of their own problems like family or office problems and they didn't to face it of their own problems and that they want to destroy of their lives and it's too wasted of their time,money and a lot more and nothing to do to stopped it and they doesn't care about their health and that's why a hundreds of the people in everyday,every moth and so on were died due to a Lung Cancer,Heart Attack,Liver Cancer and a lot more or to face it of their new chapter life and their families and friends that they always been there and to give them a good support and give them a love,caring,affection and of course to praying a lot and the most important Health is Wealth and we should to always to taking care of our health