Heroin on prescription

Booze and fags have been widely documented to have a far greater economic/social costs than illicit drugs. Imagine some bar graph with long bars for booze and fags, and shorter bars for illicit drugs and the bars represent the cost...

Are you on something?

If illicit drugs where sold as freely as alcohol and cigarrettes then I believe the problem with drugs would be far greater then with either of the other two.