Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs - internet post on Vox

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" According to federal data, alcohol is already the second deadliest drug in the country — topped only by another legal substance called “tobacco,” which has a smoked form that causes an astonishing 480,000 deaths each year by some estimates and 540,000 by others.

No other drug comes close to the staggering fatalities of these two. Illicit fentanyl, which has consumed widespread media attention due to the opioid epidemic in the past few years, was linked to fewer than 30,000 overdose deaths in 2017. And marijuana — another drug that federal law enforcement officials have warned is dangerous — reportedly caused zero overdose deaths in the past few thousand years."

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Love this article

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It’s all about the money. They pay for lots of coverage so they get the coverage, they want, which is typically glorifying their product.

Great article.

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This is awesome!

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Wow! I really like this article, especially how they used the terms drug producers and dealers. Puts things into a whole new perspective. Thanks for sharing!