r3dl3g t1_j2ffs9w wrote
Because people don't want them banned, and because the negative effects are, for most of the population, controllable.
>Why haven’t they been banned for the sake of the population?
The effects of alcohol and tobacco on the overall population basically amounts to a rounding error.
Jeramus t1_j2fj3am wrote
Support your last sentence.
Alcohol use causes about 140,000 deaths each year in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-deaths.html#:~:text=More%20than%20140%2C000%20people%20die,in%20the%20U.S.%20each%20year.
Cigarettes cause 480,000 deaths in the US each year. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/index.htm#:~:text=Cigarettes%20and%20Death,-Cigarette%20smoking%20causes&text=More%20than%20480%2C000%20deaths%20annually,including%20deaths%20from%20secondhand%20smoke)
Over 600,000 deaths a year is far more than a rounding error.
this_water t1_j2fjg9d wrote
“Approx. 13% of adults in the US smoke cigarettes. Most prevalent cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the US.”
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