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...cannot take drugs without becoming addicted--you can drink liquor and not become an alcoholic." While Koch agreed with a questioner that cigarettes are as addictive as hard drugs he said, "there's one little difference. I've never heard of cigarettes casuing people to go out and commit violence...
...What do you do?" Koch asked. "Be tougher," he answered. In addition to crowding prisoners into jails, Koch's crime program included executing wholesale drug sellers, turning closed army camps into prisons and setting up drug prisons in deserts...
...Koch also advocated putting addicts who refuse treatment in prison. "Why should we tolerate them? They are destroying us," said Koch. "The rights of society are far more important than the rights of criminals," he said...
...Koch said that drug addiciton was much more serious than alcoholism...
When one audience member suggested that the violence might be caused by needing money to buy the drugs, Koch said "You don't commit murder for10 bucks, you do it because your brain is swisscheese...