I think that it does, due to it's behavioral toxicity. As a teen, many people I know both smoke and drink- no one is going to die TONIGHT because of smoking- while they will from drunk driving or alcohol poisoning. Alcohol also causes more social problems- more than two thirds of domestic abuse occurs while the abuser is drunk. Smoking primarily affects the smoker (yes, there is some second-hand smoke, get over it) while alcoholism affects pretty much everyone in contact with the person. People can always quit smoking, but you can't quit being dead from drunk driving, or quit having been raped while passed out, or quit having seriously injured your partner. You can quit smoking, and while you'll have lung damage, it isn't necessarily permanent- once you quit smoking, about five years is addedto your life expectancy. Liver damage from drinking is permanent.

So, when it gets down to it, smoking primarily affects the smoker, while drinking affects the drinker very strongly in both the long and the short term, as well as almost everyone around them.

I think it really depends on time frame, etc. Alcohol can cause immediate death and can cause the drinker to hurt others. But in the long run, smoking is more addictive and will likely cause heart and lung cancers. I think it's safe to say that if two people with similar lifestyles (both healthy and young) picked up smoking and drinking, one addiction to each of them, that the smoker would die first from cancer. And I only mean that they must have one drink/cigarette each day only.

Yes. Think about it. You can get pregnant after a few drinks. You can't get pregnant from smoking ;)

I think it would be better put to say that alcohol causes more immediate harm than tobacco. Outside of those things that could happen when drinking, and if they never happen to you then smoking would probably be the one that would cause the most long term harm.

When you think about it, living (just by itself) causes irreparable damage. Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease. From the moment you are born, you are already on the road to a long, drawn out, death. If you are infected with life, you are destined to die. No one has survived life and there's no cure. It makes any health issues from alcohol and tobacco pale in comparison. Good health is merely the longest possible route to the grave. We all have to die of something. What difference does it make if it's from tobacco, alcohol or life itself. I mean, Obama is killing me but I'm making the best of it ;)

It really comes down to numbers, and nothing else matters. 450,000 people die from cigrette smoking while second hand smoking is still myth whereas alcohol deaths are considerably low only at 20,000.