Cigarettes are the only legal product deadly when used as intended

Evidence

Cigarettes, which are essentially a vehicle for nicotine, are one of the deadliest products that is marketed worldwide. Cigarettes are the only legalized drug-delivery device that can sicken and kill you if used as intended. Smoking is the leading cause of premature deaths; (McGinnis & Foege, 1993). In countries with high smoking rates, such as China and France, about a third of men will die prematurely of chronic lung disease or lung cancer (Lam, Ho, Hedley, Mak, & Peto, 2001). John Seffrin, the former head of the American Cancer Society, characterized smoking as “the only weapon of mass destruction used against people all over the world.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1622

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking conversational fact: cigarettes as the only legal product designed to kill as intended, plus the weapon-of-mass-destruction quote.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1622