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AnswerDepends. Smokers are IIRC four times more likely to die from the health consequencs of smoking than drinkers are to die from the health consequences of drinking, e.g., cirrhosis of the liver. But smoking doesn't impair your performance at work or school, damage your brain, or ruin your life when you're young. No one ever lost his job and family because he smoked too much, or killed the occupants of an oncoming car, or ended up attending AA meetings or a bum in the gutter. So smoking seems to be worse from the health perspective, drinking from the perspective of the effect it has on your day-to-day life when you're younger.

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It depends on whom you ask! Tobacco Control will tell you smoking and 'Alcohol Control' will tell you drinking. And, there again, 'Obesity Control' will tell you eating Big Macs. The honest answer is that they haven't the slightest idea. Any medical condition is not 'caused' by a single cause but has several or many contributing factors. These factors enormously from one person to another.

Almost forgot! A politician will tell you the biggest vote winner. The pharmaceutical company will tell you the one they stand to make most bucks on .

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