2006-11-04 02:11:38 · 21 answers · asked by Julie 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
None. Too must money to be made in taxes and "settlement" payments.
2006-11-04 02:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by Bawney 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if that will ever happen, but I know this woman that smokes one cigarette after another. She pays 35.00 a carton.
She said, it the tax law passes they will cost so much more, but she also says she will keep smoking no matter what. I am a non
smoker and can't stand the smoke from others cigarettes. I try to stay away from it, but it's hard to do. I wish everyone would stop
smoking. I have already lost 3 brothers to lung cancer.
2006-11-04 10:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bethany 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd think you'd need first to make it completely unprofitable to sell them...only once no company can make any money selling ciggies will their sale ever be prohibited. Also, maybe, if somehow the tobacco companies themselves built their own pharma subsidiaries, worked out drugs that make use of the good stuff in tobacco and found cures for alzheimers and such, got for-forever patents on them in exchange for a promise to stop selling ciggies in the US, that too might lead to such a scenario.
2006-11-04 10:23:33 · answer #3 · answered by Michelle H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prohibit cigarettes?, please that would mean that there's no freedom N people would start rallying against it the only way would be to destroy any possible trace of tobacco in this country but then U'd C people smuggling tobacco in, people saying "I'll do anything 4 a smoke", it would B the new "illegal drug".lol It's insane but true.
2006-11-04 10:19:41 · answer #4 · answered by Nitemuse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, prohibition of alcohol failed in the 1920's. So I don't think they'll try that again. I think a mixture of high taxation and a tightening of the screws by the health insurance companies will have the "desired" effect.
2006-11-04 11:18:37 · answer #5 · answered by skip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. The Fed Govt subsidizes tobacco farmers, who make a tonsof money selling cigarettes overseas. Then they govt gets the money back in the form of taxes. So they are in reality investing in farmers by giving them a subsidy and then making a profit by taxing the same farmers. It would be like me giving you a $1000 to complete a drug deal, then after you do so, my return on the $1000 investment is $10,000 . . . get it?
2006-11-04 10:21:56 · answer #6 · answered by commonsense 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps not prohibited but will get to the point that no one will grow them, you will have to grow your own in yoru back yard or something. Courts will continue to allow law suit after law suit, till the cigarette companies will not be able to stay in business
2006-11-04 11:43:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only give credit to the source and refer you to what I think is The Best answer about prohibition of tobacco:
http://www.drugpolicy.org/docUploads/DPAZogbyTobaccoPoll2006.pdf
2006-11-04 14:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by Amethyst Rancher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully they are. Maybe the cost of health insurance will drop a bit when all the people who are making themselves sick with cigarettes can not anymore.
2006-11-04 10:32:22 · answer #9 · answered by Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that within the next twenty years they are likely to be prohibited anywhere in public.
2006-11-04 10:15:37 · answer #10 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No chance at all. Cigarettes will be taxed out of existence.
2006-11-04 10:15:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋