Should smoking cigarettes be illegal?

Question

Do you think smoking cigarettes should be illegal?

Why or why not?

Answer 1

No it should not be illegal. Just as we have free will and we know the dangers of smoking. No one can say when they took that first puff from a cigarette and hacked their lungs up that they didn't know it was bad for them. As is the right to drink, get drunk, fall down throw up, drive home.

Answer 2

It's already gotten to the point where there are very few places that smokers can light up legally. Outdoors, maybe, but more cities are even regulating smoking outdoors. In your own house, yes but then you are subjecting those you live with to second hand smoke, so a lot of people don't even feel free to do that. But totally banning cigarettes will not work for the same reason that prohibition did not work. It would only make smoking criminal, and criminals would make all the profits from selling cigarettes. Government would lose a lot of tax money in the process.

Answer 3

In an ideal world, yes, but (even as a non-smoker) I feel that as the Government make SO MUCH in tax on every packet of cigarettes, that bans on smoking in public places are hypocritical and wrong (possible exception of restaurants/kitchens/ hospitals), I believe that all the while that smoking is legal and profitable for the government, people shouldn't be made to feel like criminals for wanting to exercise their rights!

Answer 4

while your at it, close down the factories that blow smoke out daily that would take over a BILLION cigarettes to match just one hour of smoke. Then take away all the billions of cars,trucks, buses, motorcycles, and rv's out there polluting the air. then go into the homes and pull all the perfume, parfume, Cologne, and aerosol can out. then get rid of the cleaners, the detergents and all the other crap that is out there. Now Bit*h about a cigarette. I have asthma, and Cigarettes doesn't do anything to me. Put me around the smelly crap, and I'll have an attack in a heart beat.

Answer 5

Absolutely. They hurt not only the smoker, but anyone breathing in the second hand smoke. They are just cancer sticks. Why the heck should lung cancer research get so much money when most people with lung cancer smoked for years? If they hadn't smoked, they wouldn't have ruined their health. The money instead could go to other research for illnesses that are in no way someone's own fault.

Answer 6

Illegal or not. People will still smoke it. Just like weed. So really there's no point in making it illegal. Even though it's extremely bad for you.

Answer 7

No. If you think that smoking aught to be illegal then you should first illegalize all the poisonous industry emissions which are far, far more harmful to life on this planet. Banning smoking won't make iota of difference to the lack of our ozone layer.

Answer 8

No, I think it is just fine for people to go around showing the world how weak and stupid they are. Likewise, I don't think we should outlaw foods that people who become obese eat. These are personal choices and I do not want to live in a nanny state.

Having said that, I think it is fine for (local) government to regulate where, in public places only (i.e. not privately owned places open to the public), people may smoke since there is a health risk to those who come into frequent and constant contact with smokers.

May God bless and keep you.

Answer 9

No. I abhor the smell of cigarette smoke, and would be absolutely thrilled if I never had to smell it again... But the fact of the matter is it is NOT the place of the government to establish a law against it...

Answer 10

NO
Cell phones cause more death , as does alcohol . Cigarette bans are just Liberal feel-good laws, sort of a hip, flavor-of-the-week crusades that really don't improve society or the general well-being. The govt. already has too much control over our daily lives.