These drugs are all deadlier than cannabis

Britain's most lethal drugs are all legal. Statista's latest chart in the Independent took inspiration from a similar chart by Vox and shows that smoking, alcohol and presciption pain killers caused more annual deaths than illegal drugs.

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This chart shows annual drug-related deaths in England and Wales.

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