[ConservingFreedom]

I knew drugs were bad because I had seen so many examples of them bringing death and misery to people

Alcohol and tobacco bring death and misery to people.

How many people die from Alcohol and how many people die from Tobacco?

According to the CDC (http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html) in 2011, 2,284 Americans died from the direct cause of "poisoning by and exposure to alcohol." There appears to be no corresponding separate category for tobacco - nor for marijuana, perhaps related to the fact that the median lethal dose for THC is the equivalent of about 240 joints.

[DiogenesLamp]

According to the CDC (http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html) in 2011, 2,284 Americans died from the direct cause of "poisoning by and exposure to alcohol."

Your number is way too small. You left out the people killed by drunk drivers. You know, the innocent people which Libertarian philosophy says not to harm.

Also deaths from tobacco are not all that hard to find, but most such people have only harmed themselves. The only exceptions would be the fires started by people who smoke. There is probably a significant number of people killed by such fires, but it is probably very difficult to break it out of the other data.