Originally Posted by
CrackQuack 
Scare tatics don't work with me and besides, crack cocaine kills more people than cigarettes. In one way or another. Thank you for your concern, but smoking cigs is still small stuff to me. 
I'm a smoker but still...ummm...
* Number of deaths: 2,426,264
* Death rate: 810.4 deaths per 100,000 population
* Life expectancy: 77.7years
* Infant Mortality rate: 6.69 deaths per 1,000 live births
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
* Heart disease: 631,636
* Cancer: 559,888
* Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
* Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
* Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
* Diabetes: 72,449
* Alzheimer's disease: 72,432
* Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326
* Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344
* Septicemia: 34,234
I mean right off the top of my head those 5 bolded are all caused or worsened by cigarettes
Cigarette Smoking
The 1982 United States Surgeon General's report stated that"Cigarette smoking is the major single cause of cancer mortality in the United States." This statement is as true today as it was then.
Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. Because cigarette smoking and tobacco use are acquired behaviors -- activities that people choose to do -- smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society.
Crack isn't even in the top 100 IIRC