alcohol, tobacco kills more people than all other drugs, why not make them illegal ?

Question

either that, or make the other drugs legal. its stupid to do it any other way.

i think very very very few people in any have ever died going down the highway from smoking.

i have never used an illegal drug, and i rarely ever drink a wine cooler, never anything harder than that, and never smoked anything in my life.but it isn't my business to tell other people how to live their life.

Answer 1

dont worry, it wont be long. now that we have the nannys in charge in dc, wont be long before lots of things are gone. they are already working on what kind of food we can eat and where. what schools our kids go to because of the color of their skin. they can take our homes because a new shopping mall can give the gvt. more tax money than we pay. dont worry, it wont be long to become a full blown nanny state.

Answer 2

Big tobacco supported Bob Dole. The distillers supported BJ Clinton. Hillary ignored the stats to demonize tobacco and the politically correct non-thinking robots of the left still follow.

So, you see, its not a matter of what is harmful. Black legislators wanted the penalty for crack cocaine possession eased because whites tended to get lighter sentences for powder cocaine ( instead of asking for tougher penalties all around). This wouldn't really help the drug problem in the black community, but would let the pols appear to be 'helping', even though the opposite is true.

Its about votes, greed and power.

Answer 3

Maybe you should lay off the drugs and think about this one for a second. Or, just try to stay clean long enough to take a statistics class:

Because alcohol and tobacco are legal substances, of course there will be more deaths associated with them. They are more readily available. Anyone can go to the store and buy them, therefore the number of users are substantially higher. This is called the law of probability, seriously, look it up.

If you legalized drugs like pot, crack, heroin, etc. and got the number of users to equal that of alcohol or tobacco, I guarantee that you would have a much higher incidence of related deaths than alcohol and tobacco combined.

Answer 4

That's because at one time more people used alcohol and tobacco than all other drugs combined. They have both killed their share of people including tobacco deaths while going down the road.

Answer 5

Every state makes so much money from alcohol and tobacco sales, so they are legal in most states, When they are illegal people will buy them anyways. And that is why we have bootlegged alcohol and ciggerettes

Answer 6

Perhaps you heard of a little experiment called prohibition. The take away lesson from that exercise is that the rabble needs some type of soma to escape real life or they instead all become lawbreakers.

Answer 7

Grand idea.

Let's get a bunch of people hopped up on smack and give them the keys to vehicles to "make a statement against smoking and drinking".

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Answer 8

simple- tobacco and alcohol are socially accepted and would be difficult to ban. look at how prohibition worked out. where illegal drugs generally arent socially accepted, so its best to keep them illegal so you dont open another can of worms.

and alcohol and tobacco kill more people because way more people use them, not neccesarily because theyre more dangerous than crack and lsd

Answer 9

just the ones who dropped a joint while driving and swerved off the roads. Because they dont wanna be like The NETHERLANDS deficit free, low crime, and No one wanting to bomb them. THE US has gotta be in everyone elses business. And theres no MARIJUANA COMPANIES TO LOBBY THE CONGRESS and give the congressmen bribes and kickbacks. the congress and law makers are all old its easier to tax alcohol and cigarette companies

Answer 10

The government taxes the snot out of most everything we need, or are addicted to.