{"id":7760,"date":"2011-09-06T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2016-06-30T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:16:51","slug":"tobacco-alcohol-and-pharmaceutical-industries-must-love-this-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2011\/09\/tobacco-alcohol-and-pharmaceutical-industries-must-love-this-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical industries must love this campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities and millionaires with no history of addiction research or helping addicts to reclaim destroyed lives campaigned globally in June to make drugs even more available \u2013 citing reasons based on theory not fact. David Raynes tells the truth<\/p>\n<p>COMPARE STATISTICS: HARMS OF LEGAL vs ILLEGAL DRUGS<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u201cMore deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined,\u201d states the US Centre for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/data_ statistics\/fact_sheets\/health_effects\/tobacco_related_<br \/>\nmortality). UK figures are below.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 880 deaths\/year involve heroin or morphine<br \/>\n(latest figures from the Office of National Statistics at http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/pdfdir\/poi0311.pdf)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 8,664 deaths\/year involve alcohol (http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/cci\/nugget.asp?id=1091<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 81,400 deaths of people in England alone aged 35+ were attributable to tobacco (http:\/\/www.ic.nhs.uk\/pubs\/smoking10)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An estimated 462,900 hospital admissions in England alone of people aged 35+ were attributable to smoking (ibid).<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Addiction Today July\/August 2011<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Celebrities and millionaires with no history of addiction research or helping addicts to reclaim destroyed lives campaigned globally in June to make drugs even more available \u2013 citing reasons based on theory not fact. David Raynes tells the truth COMPARE STATISTICS: HARMS OF LEGAL vs ILLEGAL DRUGS \u2022 \u201cMore deaths are caused each year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-health","category-prevention-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}