Based on the detrimental effects of smoking, do you think smoking should be made illegal?

Answer 1

should we start banning the use of fireplace? ban cars due to emissions? coal burning? incenerators? etc....because it's detrimental to health------------the argument is lame.

Answer 2

No. If detrimental effects were the only thing to consider when deciding to ban something then we wouldn't have cars, there would be no medicines, childbirth, you name it.

Besides, I'm not too sure about all the hype about the detrimental effects of smoking. I know a lot of people who smoked for decades & have not had a problem. There are also many people in their 90's & 100's who have smoked for 70 or 80 years. I don't think they're quite as bad as they're made out to be.

Answer 3

If it was detrimental effects, then absolutely not.

But it is addictive, and should be every bit as illegal as all other addictive drugs. Tobacco companies knowingly make tobacco even more addictive than it already is, and some are more prone to this.
Governments do not want people to give up, they get very nice revenues out of it, and carefully put the taxes up each year so they do not loose too many tax payers. Besides the earlier people die, the fewer aged benefits they have to pay out.

Answer 4

Yes and No.
Yes because it is Killing people, people seem to be dropping down like flies because of it, and the second hand smoke too.... Then parents who smoke set a bad example for their kids to smoke, who set an example for their kids to smoke etc. And then eventually it becomes Genetic. So hardly any one down the family tree can't help to smoke.
I think that there should be a free program to help people not smoke... Continue and stay strong on this for a few years... so then that way the next Generation will be " Semi Smoke Free"

No because then we would have a bunch of bozos selling cigarettes illegally, and then filling up prisons and then there would be no room for the murders and sick child molesters.

Answer 5

Well based on the detrimental effects of eating fried foods, should they be banned also?

Well based on the detrimental effects of not exercising, should everyone be legally forced to exercise?

It's not the governments job to protect you from every single source that is detrimental to your health.

We already have people who want to ban McDonalds, ban mountain climbing, they almost want to ban sunshine because of skin cancer.

I thought we had some individual rights left in this country.

With your question, maybe we won't for long.

Answer 6

No. But I think that public funds for medical treatment (except end stage pain management) for anyone who smokes after a set announced date should be mandated.

An alternative? Create a separate fund of more, new tobacco taxes to pay for any public health care for people who insist on knowingly inhaling carcinogens. When the $$$ is gone so is the heath care.

And by the way. My mom died of lung cancer from smoking at age 57...ugly way to go. And no public funds were used to treat her. So call me a heartless bastard. Suppose I am...but so are tobacco companies that refuse to accept their half of the blame.

Answer 7

I don't smoke and don't go places where people do. However I believe in the freedom that this country was founded on. Why does everyone believe that they have the right to tell others they can or cannot do something just because it is bad for their health or because they personally don't like it? A very wise man once said, "That government is best, which governs the least". In other words, Butt OUT!

Answer 8

No. What is it with everyone is bashing the Tobacco Companies? A long time ago, people who became addicted were doing so not knowing the true effects of tobacco. Nowadays, people know and they still choose to smoke. No one put a gun to their heads and made them smoke. There are many other lethal agents we are exposed to daily, what should we do about that?

Answer 9

Based on the detrimental effects of driving and also drinking should they be outlawed also?

Can't you think for yourself instead of having to have the government do it for you?

Answer 10

Suicide is a divine right of a person even if it is a slow passive suicide as with doing the drugs in tobacco. Only, druggies, even a tobacco druggie does not have the right to expose others to the drug second hand or passing the ideology that support the use of the drugs found in tobacco.

Answer 11

Yes!!!! It should be because the worst part is that smoking is worst secondhand. Which is not fair to everyone else & think about it, the smoker has a filter while there's no filter to the outside!