Reddit reviews Death by Medicine

>“There is 50 years of data that says tobacco use is bad.”

There is an even longer history of iatrogenic disease (long before the current pharma-disease-mongering trends).

And plenty of studies indicate it is (still) a FAR more deadly phenom than even tobacco... its either THE leading cause of premature death, or it is a close second or third (depending on which study you look at -- here's an interesting one).

Cf "Death by Medicine" essay and the larger book version as well as other books, often by doctors & surgeons themselves, like "Doctors Are More Harmful Than Germs: How Surgery Can Be Hazardous to Your Health - And What to Do About It" by Harvey Bigelsen M.D.