what do people think about illigalizing cigarettes?

Question

The amount of harm cigarettes causes is horrific and very little good comes out of it... I know people say it calms them down but really there are other ways to relax. A lot of teenagers and young adults who start don't understand how addictive of asubstance it is. On top of it all everyone around them has to deal with the effects of second hand smoke - its pretty important. Lung disease is the third leading cause of death among Canadians --- Maybe putting a ban on it would help. starting off with light rules and eventually making them more strict with time.

Answer 1

A lot of answers here so this is my take.

As a smoker, and the many I have known in my lifetime, will tell you advertising cigarettes gets no one to start smoking. It is done through peer pressure, or ideology of coolness, or curiousity.

I started from being dared when I was 8. I started smoking regularly when I was twelve. Nicotine gets you addicted, but the habit is what causes the quiting problem.

Smoking everyday through good and bad situations, making it a part of you is what keeps you hooked, a psycological thing. After smoking regularly for a few years you develope a habit that is hard to eliminate from routine.

It is found that people are getting tumours in their lungs, and these are non smokers. Most cancers are matured by the environment. Also health feilds know cigarettes are not good but manipulate numbers. How can living in a city not have any effect on ones life of health. People are dying of ailments similar to being a smoker but never smoked. A cigarette hurts the smoker most. Curtisy should stop people from lighting up in confined spaces. As a science teacher told me as a student or question.
You get to choose but not the circumstance.

Being in a sealed garage for 5 hours:
a. with a smoker
b. a car idleing
I would choose a.

A headache but would be alive. if a car just idling I would be dead in less than 5 minutes.

It was an example of what does more damage. What else is wrong is that, when you make it more difficult to smoke you are challanging youth to find other ways, a psycological quest to beat the system.

If you want youth to not smoke phisical education is the only way, make them pass a physical test each year in high school, only healthy non smokers will pass, and it is not until you are smoking for over 5 years do the real effects of loss of breath kick in, cause when you are young you are more active which makes for a healthy body.

I get winded at times but try to stay active. I am healthy but know I can be healthier and have more funds if I didn't smoke.

Also weed smokers do more damage to their lungs in the long term than smokers, research has shown that do to non filters of weed smokes, and the deep inhalaton that a weed smoker does causes the lungs to have a harder time to remove the phleame that it creates.

Look at a weed smoker (does not smoke cigarettes) and a cigarette smoker (who does not smoke weed) The weed smoker coughs a lot more than a smoker, but a smoker o can eliminate more phleame from clearing the throat, sneezing.
Where weed smokers put to much deep in the lungs which make it harder for the lungs to remove the sediment.

Putting anything into your lungs but natarul air is bad period. But for one to accuse smoking as causing cancer needs to know more about the human body.

We all have genetics that are dormant that are called the cancer gene, if it becomes active cancer cells are produced, there is no cure or will there ever be one, unless you can elimate the gene, which you can't without harming the dna code which will cause one to not exist for it would be considered damaging the code. But science is focusing on harm reduction, better living, and better treatments. Diabetics (type 1) have the same problem it is an autoimmune disorder, unless you take anti rejection drugs, you will develope diabetis if your genetics are written for that. But better treatments, and maybe some transplants of inlet cels that produce insulin will help, but you cannot cure something that is a part of you.

I know we would like to cure these things but we can't maybe one day the gene will vanish over time, but I doubt it.

All these things in our dna as age, we need to be eliminated, our bodies are designed to fail in time, kinda self destruction mechanism. We can fight it but we will not win. When you accept this, it is easier to live.

Find better medications or treatments that will assist in the fight. But genetic manipulation is the only way to cure genetic deseases like cancer, diabetes etc etc....

I am a realist so I accept facts ove emotional beleif. But alchol costs more in a year in costs than smoking.

Alcohol can destroy families, livers, brain cells, people kill under the influence, drunk driving etc etc.....

Fact is if you are a smoker respect others, go outside. or in the washroom with the vent on or something. A little goes a long way.

But for now focus on the real harm pollution caused by factories and cars.

Answer 2

They tried the whole Prohibition thing with alcohol back in the 30's and look what happened. I despise cigarettes. I am allergic to them, and as we cannot afford health insurance, I had to shell out $160 bucks for a doctor visit and two prescriptions last month becaue I got a face full of smoke. And we most definately are NOT members of the Rockefeller family.
I would love if no one ever smokes again anywhere. But that isn't going to happen. Making tobacco illegal is just unrealistic. But I could see the feds putting an extra five bucks tax on cig packs to offset the cost of health care for those who smoke and the feds have to pay for through Medicare/Medicade. And taxing the bloody things that much would keep them out of the hands of kids and perhaps deter people from starting. And it could make people rethink just how important smoking really is in their lives.

Answer 3

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Diabetes can be "reversed" or go into "remission". I believe that what that is is decreasing the need to take medications. A person who has diabetes will always have it... but there are cases where a type 2 can either reduce medications or even eliminate them... but will still need to watch diet, get plenty of exercise and keep their weight down. This is called management and control. However, that does not mean that there will never be one. Research has taken huge advances and the more scientists learn about it, the higher likelihood that a cure might come about someday.
While I did recently read an article that stated gastric lap band or gastric bypass MAY be a potential cure, more research is needed and even if this one day is a cure, it would only be effective on type 2s who are obese since neither of those procedures are performed on people who are of normal weight or body mass. Stem cell transplants are still highly controversial and most likely, have a long way to go before it is approved as a diabetes cure by the FDA. Since the vast majority of diabetics are type 2 (roughly 90%), those of us who are type 1 seem to get lost in the shuffle. EMT type 1 for more years than I care to remember, use a pump. Let me add that when I mean diabetes can be controlled and managed without medication but with diet, exercise and weight control, I'm referring to type 2. This is not an option for type 1s, who must take insulin, either by injections or a pump, to survive.

Answer 4

People have not learned that declaring a substance illegal makes it go away. The prime example of this was in the 1920's when booze was declaired verboten. What happened? The rise of organized crime to a position of wealth and power in society. the same is true of drugs like cocaine and heroin. The drug cartels spend many millions of dollars each year lobbying the lawmakers to ensure these drugs and also marijana remain illegal as if they were ever legalised the drug cartels would be out of buisness and would lose billions of dollars in revenue.

All this is equally true of tobacco. Make it illegal and the allure of smoking only increases, particulairly with the young. The only real answer to any substance abuse, including tobacco, lies in education. but even this will not snuff out the use of tobacco. I know, I have smoked for over 50 years! I have no intention of quiting even though I am well aware of the risks. So forget it.

Answer 5

Honestly if they are going to do anything they need to do something about alcohol. They raise taxes on cigarettes and yet leave alcohol alone but in my opinion, it's drinking that is a big problem. Drunk drivers kill and devastate more lives than cigarettes, sometimes murdering a whole family in one fatal wreck. If anything, stricter laws should be made for these people who just continue to drink and drive. And how many times does the person who was driving drunk get what they deserve???? Instead they survive the wreck to drink and drive another day while someone is having to bury a loved one or loved ones!!!! People have a choice on whether to be around people that smoke or not, they have to choice to ask the person who is smoking to please put it out and they also have the choice to avoid areas that are designated as smoking areas. But rarely do drunk driving victims have any choice!

Answer 6

If you look at all of the legal maneuvers over the last 5 years, as well as all of the legal lawsuits, you would see that smoking is slowly but surly becoming outlawed. It will happen, sooner or later. Here in Colorado, you cannot smoke anywhere indoors, in a public place now. Cannot smoke in a government building for a number of years already. Smoking will become illegal probably within the next ten years.

Answer 7

The cigarette companies get you addicted to cigarettes...and now taxes on cigarettes are going up AGAIN....businesses have a "no smoking" policy...
you have to stand outside in the rain, cold, heat...whatever to smoke now when your at work. Can you imagine a nurse or a doctor that needs a cigarette and can't have one cause they cannot smoke in the hospital..outside the hospital...in a car in the parking lot... OOOHHHH....
I wouldn't want to be on an operating table with a surgeon having a nicotine fit.

Answer 8

once you're asking this question, then you actually truly don't have the human high quality of empathy, a minimum of at the same time as it includes this subject. My husband smokes, and that i gently remind him continually that he suffers from respiratory diseases extra critically than I do and receives out of breath so right away because he smokes. now and again he's of the same opinion and frequently he receives offended and protective. in difficulty-free words he's familiar with at the same time as or if he will stop. i do not yell at him for no longer quitting, nor do i imagine him weak. He kicked alcohol 16 years in the past and firmly is conscious why he couldn't cope with it. Smoking is extra insidious, and it would want to income a good more impregnable carry before you already comprehend what it is doing to you. Many sober alcoholics i comprehend have not in any respect been in a position to kick cigarettes consequently. i do not implore you to end tooting your human being horn. it is amazingly an success! yet do not belittle those who have not yet made the bounce that you've; it in difficulty-free words makes them offended and works adversarial for your suggested purpose--to inspire others to stop as you've.

Answer 9

My city just banned it, and it's not enforced. The cops even smoke here. Why don't you worry about factories polluting the air, instead of something so trivial. Smoking is not allowed in public buildings anymore, except bars, so unless smokers are lighting up in your home, it's no skin off your butt. Nicotine is addictive, or more people would quit. Your crusade is doomed to failure as long as cigarettes are manufactured.

Answer 10

I'm not certain if "illigalizing" will do much of anything for anyone since it is'nt even friggin' word!!!!!! But assuming that you are wanting to make cigarettes "Illegal", here's something for you to think about: Remember PROHIBITION? Of course you don't, but it happened and a lot of people died because of it. The USA is a FREE country... you have the RIGHT to do whatever you want to your body! Second hand smoke is NOT harmful to others! and even if it was, they can go elsewhere, THIS IS A SMOKERS WORLD! READ THE FACTS and GO BUY A PACK!