"Smoking and alcoholism"?

From Comments:Loneliness unhealthy as smoking and alcoholism, new study says

"Smoking and alcoholism"?

Smoking causes six times as many preventable deaths as alcohol.

Do they mean as harmful as smoking and alcoholism combined, or approximately as harmful as their average?

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