People that smoke get cancer and people that drink too much can get cancer too. It just seems like the money and effort poured into that industry could be spent better some place else. What would the world be like without drinking and smoking?
2006-07-17 09:45:32 · 16 answers · asked by mariodeuce 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
It's called government lobbyists. Try to ban smoking in North Carolina....you'd get NOWHERE with that. And Prohibition....what did that do to our country? People were still drinking....remember those Walton sisters who made their own moonshine in their basement? That must have been worse for you than what you can get at the supermarket now I would imagine.
By the way, I HATE smokers. Well, most of the time the people who smoke are nice, but I hate that they blow their bad breath smoke in my face, they litter their butts all over the place, and they are still stupid enough to pay $7.00 for a carton of cigarettes in New York. Don't forget those yellow teeth.
Drinking on the other hand-I have nothing against that. As long as some dumb-*** doesn't get behind a wheel after having 15 shots of tequila that is. It's their business if they want to ruin their livers. But then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to be put on any organ donor's lists....
Such a broad topic and I am sure you will get many differing and interesting answers.
2006-07-17 09:51:58 · answer #1 · answered by Left Footed 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think that it's great that our doctors and scientists can now determine, better than ever before, what is and what isn't good for you.
I want this information to be available and I want people to strongly consider this information before taking an action on what is and what isn't good for you.
But what I do not want, no matter how bad something is for me, is for the government to tell me that I can't do it.
I have absolutely no reason to believe that my government or any other government has any special ability to know what is good for me in the long run.
I, armed with knowledge and wisdom (or the lack of it) should be able to decide what I am going to do or not going to do with my own body and my life. As long as I am not actually going out and harming someone (let's not take this loosely and start assuming that medical insurance is harming people, because I pay into my insurance and thus have a right to it), I should be able to do what I want and enjoy.
As a side note, I should tell you that I do not smoke (my mother passed away in 2003 from cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking) and I drink rarely (a drink for new years and a few now and then during gatherings), so I speak not only from knowledge in my own life, but of the lives of those I love dearly.
Hope that this helps.
Buddhadan
2006-07-17 09:53:24 · answer #2 · answered by buddhadan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In fact people that eat apples get cancer, and so do people who wear the color yellow...in fact people get cancer that never even smoked or drank, the real reason why it's not illegal is because this is a capitalistic society, it's big business, not only for the manufactuers, but also the companies that create patches, and pills, and programs for addicts! Plus they make people feel good!
2006-07-17 09:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by DIRTY B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is legal because the government makes money from the taxes it imposes on these products. Cocaine and other restricted drugs would be legal if they could be taxed.
Think about how many undertakers would be laid off if the world quit drinking and smoking and killing. We would have more people underfoot and less resources to go around.
2006-07-17 09:50:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the example of when alcohol was banned in the US at the start of the 1900's. The trade just went underground. That is exactly what would happen if fags and booze were banned today.
I have to agree that if alcohol was banned tomorrow then I would want to drink it and would try to find it illegally.
Cigarettes and alcohol also make a lot of money for the companies that manufacture them so why would they want to stop?
2006-07-17 09:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by scaryclairy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many people have been electrocuted accidentally? Why not declare electricity illegal.
It's about responsibility... take it into your hands and make up your own mind. Quit looking for an excuse to invite the government into some other facets of our lives. You choose to smoke, you choose to drink, you know the risks.
Part of being an adult... knowing the facts and making a decision.
2006-07-17 09:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by J.D. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the reason drinking and smoking are legal is because it is a couple of the main ways that the government makes their money besides controling half of the drug smuggling in the world and if they just took it away people would find a way to do it anyways.
2006-07-17 09:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by insanityplea420 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of corporate greed. I quit cigs 2 months ago, it was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. Now I compromise and have a cigar every once in awhile, keeps down the smoking cravings. I drink maybe once a week. Like I said, its all corporate greed, same reason marijuana isn't legal.
2006-07-17 09:48:51 · answer #8 · answered by ringshank1980 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you do not regularly smoke then astounding to no longer do each and each and every as you'll prob eco-friendly out. I smoke and drink in spite of the indisputable fact that even as it comes right down to it, booze will take the nerves away swifter then weed will. Dont be worrying female, you'd be in a position to be pleasant!
2016-12-01 19:19:36 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because our government is making tons of money from these two industries!
2006-07-17 09:47:34 · answer #10 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋