The great smoking debate!?

Question

Okay smoking is bad for you, we all know that. But then again eating high sugar and fatty foods are as well. Laying out in the sun is bad, tanning is bad, eating to much fish, not getting enough sleep, to much sleep, everything is bad for you it seems. But my question is this....................why don't we tax EVERYTHING bad for you like we tax smokers? Would you pay 14.00 for a cheesburger? That's the same rate as taxes on cigarettes. Heart diseas is the #1 killer in the USA and eating wrong is just as much to blame as smoking. Does that make taxes on one certain thing right?

Answer 1

They tax cigarettes, because they know people are addicted to smoking, and will generate a whole bunch of money, because they got you where they want you, in your pocketbook. I just heard on the news yesterday that smoking and drinking are bad for you but smoking pot is better. So that is why pot is illegal, and cigarettes and liquor are legal.I just do not get our government, and there stupid laws. What happened to Democracy? What happened after the Boston Tea Party? Men and Women fought for our freedom, and many died for our freedom, and now look. We are no better off today, than we were when we were governed, by the British, as we are paying through the nose, the taxes the government has enforced on us. Who the heck gave president Bush the right to spend over 500 billion dollars, that is our money,people in our country, are homeless, have no medical and have no future, but we can spend 500 billion on a war. I guess that just proves where our government has failed the people of the USA. George Bush does not have to worry about money, retirement, medical, housing, or anything else as he is from a very affluent family and never had a money worry in his life.A lot of us scratch and scratch out a living, only to pay probably one third of our income towards taxes, so how do we get ahead. Oh I forgot we have our tax free IRA'S, THAT WE HAVE TO PAY TAX ON, ONCE WE RETIRE. Now that makes sense?

Answer 2

Very not often does any candidate particularly outperform their opponent in a debate. The debates by and large have a slim particular area with a unfastened panel and timed solutions. This enables for the applicants to prep for all feasible questions, area scan solutions for response, and to bumper sticky label or slogan their reply with out substance. Hillary and Obama and McCain all did this of their many prior debates and this will likely keep to be the case. The incontrovertible fact that the moderators particularly do preserve the talk slight additionally prevents fine debate. They do not ask retaliatory questions of substance and don't seem to be allowed to name applicants out for heading off direct solutions of the questions. A larger layout for debates could be to have the subjects ready upfront (as they're now) however to drive the applicants to talk for five-10 mintues approximately every subject after which provide the opponent a five minute rebuttal. An whole debate would be posed from a unmarried query, permitting real perception to be won, get rid of quips and catchphrases and bumper sticky label responses and drive the applicants to exhibit skills and levelheadedness of their solutions. The present debate sort has produced a couple of seen one-ided victories, like the primary Kerry-Bush debate in 04, or the popular 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate. The Nixon- Kennedy debate confirmed no longer the significance of a debate or a good ready or soft public speaker, however the results of visible aura, and such a lot radio listeners mentioned that Nixon played larger, however tv audience (within the first ever televised debate) mentioned by way of a landslide, that Kennedy gained the talk and his ballot numbers jumped instantly. This as soon as once more indicates the infrequency of which a candidate can particularly "smoke" an additional candidate in a debate below the present approach. Most by and large the media indicates a "winner" situated off of preconcieved and predetermined personal tastes. Ask any Obama supporter, and you'll uncover he obviously ruled Hillary within the debates, as certainly as each and every Clinton supporter will display how she masterfully outperformed Barrack.

Answer 3

Smoking is a choice. Adults make choices all of the time. Some of them are good for our health, and others are not. Taxing our behaviours typically don't change our behaviours, they just make us poor.

I am against any type of restrictions on my behaviours that I don't decide for myself. It is an issue of my human rights.

Many people will say that second hand smoke is a killer. There has been research on both sides, but, whether it is or not, I don't want to infringe on other people by smoking near them when we are in an enclosed location. In an office or in a car, smoke can make other people sick. Outside, the concentrations of smoke are not nearly enough to cause health issues for non-smokers, not to mention the fact that non-smokers can choose to walk away from a smoker if they are outside. I won't force other people to smell my smoke just as I hope other people won't make me smell their cheap cologne.

So, rather than taxing everything, I would recommend that we consider respecting the choices that we all make for our own lives. If I choose to smoke, as long as I'm not in your house, in your workplace, or in your car, respect my choice. If you don't like the smell, you have the right to leave. If I own a resturant and I want to keep smokers out, I have that right. If I want to let people smoke in my resturant, I have that right also. People who smoke are people too and deserve the respect that all other adults get. I know the risks, and I have made my decision. What's it to you?

Answer 4

The difference between smoking and other bad habits is that if you eat junk food or tan it does not affect me- but if you smoke I end up inhaling it as well and it's even more dangerous to second hand smoke- I have asthma and enough problems with breathing as it is, I do not need to be subjected to someone else's unhealthy habits.

Answer 5

Just because some people have an occasional cheeseburger that doesn't make it bad, everyone doesn't eat wrong but even if they do sometime I don't think you should compare it to smoking. smoking is always bad all the time.