Why make cigarettes (or any other product) that is meant to be harmful to your health?
2006-06-18 15:45:39 · 23 answers · asked by Toddacanda 5 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Because the government makes a lot of money from taxing cigarettes and therefore they will not stop making it. They have to have money for wars, exotic trips, etc. Also, though, there is the whole prohibition thing....or the drug war. Outlawing a thing that people want will not stop people from growing, processing, selling, or buying it. The whole market will just go underground, increasing crime, etc. Prime example: marijuana. If the government were smart, they would tax marijuana the way they do cigs: it would make them lots of money, decrease crime and the number of people in prison for drug related crimes, and make us all a lot happier. Point is, the government doesn't really care whats good or bad for us....they care about whether or not they can tax and control it for the good of their pockets.
2006-06-18 15:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by celticvampiria 1 · 13⤊ 3⤋
Cigarette companies know their product is bad for you, but they like their money more than they care about their customers. Tobacco is VERY addictive, so don't ever start smoking. This is the voice of experience speaking.
2006-06-18 22:50:16 · answer #2 · answered by ldelayen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the tobacco industry is greedy, they could care less about the consequences that their products produces to the overall health of their consumers. They make billions of dollars every year, they're not about to shutdown to a few protests...
2006-06-18 22:57:11 · answer #3 · answered by romeo4evernever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soda pop is still made and it damages the liver and causes diabetes!
Cigarettes are both a historical pasttime and cultural icon in many countries. They are also relatively easy to produce and consume. You can smoke just as you can drink soda.
2006-06-18 22:51:18 · answer #4 · answered by Jodhpur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the free world, people have freedom of choice. If people want to smoke, and in their judgement the pleasures of smoking outweigh the health risks, who are YOU or anyone else to take that decision away from them?
You want to be told what to do and how to live, go live in an Islamic country.
2006-06-18 22:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason when they passed the alcohol prohibition amendment to the US constitution. It made everyone want to drink more.
Cigarettes are bad for people and the makers put chemicals in them to get especially young people addicted to them. They do it to make greedy money.
2006-06-18 22:59:21 · answer #6 · answered by pinelake302 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all about the benjamins my friend. Cigarette companies know thier products kills people, but as long as people continue to make them rich, they really dont care.
2006-06-18 22:53:16 · answer #7 · answered by ajsnips 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the goverment makes so much freaking money off the taxes they cant afford to ban them....And population control comes to mind as well
2006-06-18 22:50:24 · answer #8 · answered by bradford99336 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they bring in tons and tons of cash, the people who produce them are very wealthy and they can pay lobbyists lots of money to get the government and their political friends to keep making them.
2006-06-18 22:50:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like wine or computer games. It is bad, when excessive and since it has been a industry already, it can not be wiped out in one day.
2006-06-18 22:50:04 · answer #10 · answered by Claim The Earth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋