should cigarettes be made illegal?

Answer 1

Read The Runaway Jury by John Grisham to understand the idea of your good question.

Answer 2

Now way.

First: Does anyone care about the constitution and the ideals this country was made and founded on? This country was suppose to be for freedom, and you're not free if you can't smoke or kill yourself. It should be up to you what you do. Don't enforce others.

Second: Realistic wise, making them illegal would be a terrible idea. Look under eighteenth amendment and check how that turned out. Cigarettes will be sold no matter what. The question is, who would you rather have the money go to? A law biding business man who is unlikely to perform a violent crime in his life, or a criminal who is willing and is breaking the law. A criminal that's involved in gang warfare over the cigarettes you make illegal. Yeah, sounds good. Reserve the market of a very popular commodity to only those willing to break a law. They get guns, they use them, people are hurt. Better than smoking yeah.

Third: Cigarettes would be grossly less heathy than they are now. They'd be unregulated, just like booze became during prohibition.

Forth: Cigarettes would become untaxable. So the government and thus every tax payer in the country looses.

I hope I made my point.

Answer 3

I am so tired of everyone wanting to take smoker's rights away. In most places you can't smoke in public any longer and for the most part smokers have learned to deal with that. But to take so far as to away their rights to smoke in their own vehicles or their homes is totally Communistic. Every time the city and state governments want more money they simply raise the tax on tobacco and alcohol. The government is into our private lives too much as it is. This is America. We are guaranteed certain rights here or at least I thought we were. I personally think that there are more serious things to worry about besides people smoking in their vehicles or their homes and if tobacco should be made legal or not. Why aren't we up at arms more about things such as the illegals coming into this country, not having the proper health and drug care for our own(American)citizens, and/but not last, approving stem cell research so we can find cures for some of the diseases that for so long have plagued this country and the world. By the way, I used to be a smoker. I had to quit because I could no longer afford them, not because I didn't like smoking. Leave the smokers rights alone! I don't mean to offend anyone with what I feel. I am only stating my opinion. Have a good day everyone.

Answer 4

Either cigarettes alcohol and other intoxicating substances need to be made illegal, or drugs which are currently illegal need to be made legal. The current system is a double standard which allows some and forbids others, seemingly arbitrarily.

The attempt at prohibition of alcohol in the 20s and 30s indicates that a ban on these subtances is pointless. It makes far more sense to legalize everything, it would probably make the current "drug problem" go way down, and would free up massive amounts of court and correctional resources.

Legalize, regulate and tax or ban it all.

Answer 5

No! hell no! In America at least, you should be free to either nurture yourself and make yourself a better person, or take on habits and behavior that destroys you. If you want to smoke, by all means do.
You are only hurting yourself. To be fair, in my experience it is mostly women that ***** about this. I'm not trying to start something against women, this has just been my observation most of the time. Women that don't smoke, seem to be very sensative to others that do. I wish I had the answer society was looking for in this but I don't.
I know there are study's that suggest that second-hand smoke is harmful to you. However in my view, it would have to stand in line and wait for all the other toxins we breathe in everyday to do what they do, then it would be second-hand smoke's turn to harm us.
Please, Americans, have the courage to live your life as you wish. Quit bitching about how other Americans choose to live their lives. Have we learned nothing since the movie "Easy Rider"?

Answer 6

No, I am a smoker, I work, and I am tired of everyone voting away rights. Let me ask this, if I don't like my over weight neighbor, should I create a law stating they should go on a diet if their mass body weight is over a certain limit? I don't much care for my neighbors car fumes either, some days I wonder what he is burning in that car, but I keep my mouth shut - should I create a law telling him he no longer can drive his car, but now should get a bike, ride it to work, and get some exercise in the process? Don't get me wrong, I could careless if someone ate the whole cake or just a piece of cake, but I am sick and tired of all the self righteous folks trying to force down my throat their ideas. If someones life's sucks so much that all they can do is force their opinions down another's throat - might I suggest they get a life, because the more they complain till a law is created to ban their pet peeve - one day it will come back on them - and what will they have to give up?

Edited: Smoker's pay more per pack in taxes, than the pack of smokes cost. How do you plan on making up for the lost tax revenue everyone uses? (Everyone uses that tax revenue, including non-smokers.)

Answer 7

Why do you think you have the right to tell others what they can or cannot do to their own bodies?

No, it should not be illegal to smoke. It should not be illegal to use drugs. It should not be illegal to drink to your hearts content. The only laws regarding those things should be that you cannot harm another person by their use. At the same time it should be illegal to tell others what they cannot do, such as smoke or drink.

Answer 8

I am not a smoker, I think it is disgusting, but why is everyone persecuting smokers. Give people a break, they are already not allowed to smoke in almost any indoor space, now you want to say that a person cannot have a cigarette in the privacy of his own backyard? Why not outlaw beer while your at it? Oh wait, that happened in the '20s, how did that work out?

Answer 9

i don't think that they will be made illegal. They government is making money off of them. Why make it illegal when you're making money?

But then again...with all these smoking bans all over the place..it seems like they want to have them illegal.

Answer 10

Should beer be made illegal? Somethings can't/shouldn't be legislated. Why turn a large segment of the population into criminals for no reason? Look what prohibition did for alcohol or outlawing marijuana has done. It just doesn't work.