Coffee and Caffeine FAQ

Caffeine is nothing like smoking in the health effects it produces. Smoking causes nearly 5 million deaths annually worldwide, and smoking increases your chance of a heart attack 2 to 4 times. Caffeine in normal doses can actually have a protective benefit on the heart, and decreases your chance of developing diabetes. I could not find annual caffeine death statistics aside from a few megadoses cases where amounts were taken 17x and above the overdose range of 300mg. This means the death by caffeine would range in a total consumption of 5g of caffeine. Although this depends on you weight and size. Your hatred of big business clearly show why caffeine is so bad. Thank you for enlightening me. (I'm being fecetious) Please provide evidence as to why you believe this, because frankly, what you believe is wrong.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15935584 (smoking deaths)
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine (I would have to drink 170 cans of red bull to kill myself)
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4726 (smoking 2 to 4x)
http://www.medicinenet.com/caffeine/page4.htm#heart (protective benefit to the heart)