Study: Sleeping Pills Kill, Death 4x More Likely. Also 35% higher risk of cancer. Stay away from pills. Worse than smoking tobacco.

via healthland.time.com

Those who had sleep pills prescriptions were more than four times as likely to have died

What’s more, the researchers also documented a 35% increased risk of cancer among people taking sleeping pills, compared with the non-prescription group.

The risk of developing lymphoma, lung, colon or prostate cancer associated with sleeping pills was greater than the effect from smoking