Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
Heroin is relatively benign as a long term habit if managed properly. You can be a 20 year heroin addict, quit and then be fairly healthy. A 20 year booze habit and you're pretty much done for.
A 20 year booze habit can also be virtually benign, so can a 60 year booze habit, or my Gandfather's 75 year booze habit. False eqivilence, because most people who drink are not really addicts, pretty much everyone who starts taking smakc ends up hooked and coming off is a physically as well as psychologically traumatic experience.

So I think you are the one cherry picking there.