How is it that the goverment allows the tobacco industry to kill people with it's products with no consequence

Answer 1

Its your choice to smoke.

I know in TX they just put another $1 tax on each pack of cigarettes. They also put a ban on smoking in public places (in Houston at least).

So now, it may cost you more than your life. $1 a pack is pretty hefty if you're a heavy smoker.

Oh... and there's also this huge tobacco lobby. They kind of pay our representatives to make sure it stays legal. So there are lawsuits, but the money they pay out must be nothing compared to the money they get from the smokers in the world or they'd be bankrupt by now.

Answer 2

That's a good question. If smoking were indeed a single person event, then there would be no reason for animosity against the tobacco industry. However, when there is smoking in a room, then EVERYONE IN THE ROOM becomes a smoker, willing or not.
Essentially, there is no consequence. The millions awarded (stolen) from the tobacco companies were awarded to the states, NOT the injured parties. The states have, so far, squandered that money and NOT helped the injured in any way.

Answer 3

Because people using these products know that they are harmful, but choose to use them anyways. I, unfrotunately, use smokless tobacco. I know it is not good for me, but I still choose to use it.

It isn't much different than the person who eats McDonalds(or any other fast food) all the time, is grossly overweight. They know that they shouldn't, but still do.

There are many things out there that are not good for us. But, people many times those things that are not good for us usually taste the best.

The government does not stop you from doing those things that are bad for you. They just makes sure you know it is bad, and leave it up to you. If they were to do the other, we would end up in a state much like the movie "Demolition Man" from the 90's. We wouldn't be able to really do much of anything.

Side Note - Milk is actually not good for adults. Milk, as nature would have it, is for babies. That is why babies, animal or human, would drink from their mothers. At some point, they stop, and start to eat on their own. From what I have read, with the suppluments, vitamins, and other nutritional products, there is no reason that an adult needs to drink milk. But, what goes best with oreos? I know I drink it all the time. I don't need it, but I like it.

Answer 4

You mean aside from the billions of dollars the industry has had to give out because of legal settlements over the years?

Don't get me wrong, I think tobacco should probably be banned. Hell, it's the only way I'll ever quit! But to say that there have been no consequences just isn't true.

Answer 5

What do you mean no consequences? Have you been asleep for the past 10-12 years during all the lawsuits?


Maybe it's called "honoring the spirit of free will." There's not a retard on the planet that doesn't know smoking is harmful, yet they continue to do it anyway.

We can't ban the product... tried it with alcohol in the 20's, and that didn't work out too well.

Personally, I don't smoke and I never have, but I don't want to tell others they can't do it. Yeah, I think it's OK to ban it in public gathering places, but after that, leave smokers alone..

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Answer 6

The same reason they allow the asbestos industry to kill people. Acceptable casualties of the economy.

Answer 7

Because think of the thousands of people that would be jobless if tobacco companis shut down, and think of the people who make the money to grow tobacco. It would ruin the economy enormously.

Answer 8

The companies are being sued and have to put so much of their income into medical research and put warnings on their products!@~

Answer 9

it's not the company that's to blame, it's the idiots who smoke. is it the alcohol industry's fault that people become alcoholics?

Answer 10

Personal responsibility.
No one is forced to smoke. Everyone knows smoking will kill you. If you choose to smoke and get cancer its your own fault.