Should tobacco only be available via prescription?

Answer 1

and your doctor is gonna write out a prescription for tobacco? dont be so stupid.

Answer 2

Why on prescription?? What on earth would that be prescribed for?? I think it should be banned full stop. It's the only way I could give up. If I couldn't buy cigs in the corner shop, on the train station, in pubs etc, I would have no choice. I also reckon the age should be highered to 25 because I think if you're not a smoker by then, you won't be at all and that will mean less teens being able to start.

Answer 3

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I read this question I saw it as being asked in the manner that if tobacco was no longer commercially available, hence preventing future generations falling victim to the addiction, then should it only be available via prescription to those already addicted who still need it. Kind of like methadone, if I'm not mistaken, given to heroin addicts.

Although granted this would be like giving heroin to heroin addicts but I'm sure you get the idea. In this case it would make it harder for people to become addicted in the future although it would always be available through alternative sources, like any drug, but I think it would also help many of the more hardcore 'I don't care I like it' smokers to quit seeing as I can't imagine many people wanting to go to their local GP and ask for tobacco every time they need their daily dose... lol, it would certainly help people make up their mind if they want to quit.

Then again, I'm all for free will and if people want to do it let them, as long as I don't have to hear about them complaining or suing the tobacco industry because they didn't know the dangers!

So yes and no, it's all down to weather people want to think about themselves in the here and now or the future generations of potential smokers.

Answer 4

No, getting tobacco on the NHS (which is against smoking) surely isn't realistic. To cut the numbers of smokers in the country and thus the number of deaths the government needs to up the price of cigarettes. I heard their thinking of upping it by a little bit in the near future, but unless its a significant increase I dont think it would make that much difference. I would say a couple of quid woud change a few peoples minds.

However you have to think that the government is getting a lot of tax off cigarettes so would they really want to up the price and put thousands of people off.

A further bid to stop making it so convenient fo people smoking is to make sure it is banned in restaurants, bars, cafes etc.

Answer 5

That's right. I'm sure doctors will be queing up to provide their patients with the most addictive drug available, which is filled with over 4000 chemicals, most of which are carcinogenic. After that they can prescribe jumping off a bridge, or a Do-It-Yourself castration kit.

Answer 6

No one would prescribe it. It's true that doctors used to prescribe cigarettes (but they also used to prescribe opium and cocaine), but nowadays nobody would. The health risks are too great for any doctor to in good conscience prescribe it. (Only health BENEFITS from tobacco are: relieves constipation, ummm...and stops you from having a niccotine fit if you're already a smoker and need a cigarette.)

Answer 7

Leave it to peoples maturity and own inclination.
It's like asking if coffee and tea or alcohol should be on prescription.

Answer 8

No,once you restrict legal availability,then the smugglers come into the picture,& you create a market for them.

Answer 9

I don't think so. If so, what about alcohol or chocolate or chips? We all make choices, some bad, some good.Now I'll have another glass of wine and a Mars bar!

Answer 10

What a daft question! Even if a doc could be found who would prescribe it, what would it be for? Euthanasia?