Should smoking be illegal?

Question

The goverment bans drugs such as cocaine and marajuana, but not cigarettes!
I personally think cigarettes are far worse, knowing that they contain Rat poison and Tar!
What do you think of this matter?

Answer 1

The government will never ban tobacco because they profit off of it. Plain and simple.

Answer 2

Did you know that congress is still using your tax dollars to subsidize the tobaccos farmers? Yep, the government pays tobaccos subsidies. That would probably be a good place to start.

If some other country killed as many Americans as tobacco does, we'd be at war. Yes, it ought to be illegal, but prohibition seldom makes things go away. It just creates a black market for the product. Probably it would help to only sell cigarettes in liquor stores so they're not conveniently available. The other thing is to keep putting out the message that it's not cool or glamorous. Most smokers being as teenagers who think it makes them look older or cool, or what ever.... Try to make it uncool.

Answer 3

I disagree 100%. I believe that marijuana first off should be legal. It has so many medical benefits and is natural. All these pills floating about to do the same things weed could have so many bad side effects. Other drugs also have many benefits when used correctly. Making drugs illegal doesn't stop them AT ALL! All it does is stop suffering people from being able to get them prescribed at hospitals for medical reasons. Personally, I think in about 5 to 10 years tobacco will be on it's way out and marijuana will be what's being sold instead. The war on drugs is the same exact thing as the war on alcohol or prohibition. It's a bunch of ****!

Answer 4

Well, let's take it a little further shall we? What about banning alcoholic beverages they kill the brain cells and poison the body as well. I believe that everyone should have the freedom to choose for themselves. Banning something like cigarettes is just going to open the door to special interest groups lining up to ban just about everything that offends them. Freedom of choice people. We gotta draw the line somewhere.

Answer 5

No, in fact too much **** is illegal now. This is supposed to be the land of the free. Pretty soon we won't be able to take a crap with out a freaking' permit!
The stupid bleeding hearts are all like, "Oh cigarettes kill people!" Yeah and God bless them too!
This country is getting overpopulated as it is, and besides that if your stupid enough to smoke in the first place I figure you must want a little cancer or something. Either that or you want some whining sissy to sue the Cigarette company for a million bucks because everybody knows that they just held a gun to your head and made you smoke every drag.
There's no such thing as common sense in this ******* country anymore! Oh yeah and while I'm on this little rant, if I see one more ******* GEL commercial I think I'm gonna hurl! Listen people, everyone has heard the news that cigarettes kill you. I say those who choose to ignore the Surgeon General and keep smoking and die and just modern representations of natural selection. You know? Its like he who smokes too many cigarettes as a kid doesn't grow up to have any kids of his own. It's natures way of eliminating the simpletons.

Answer 6

There is a huge tax on cigarettes. To out law it would only subtract these fiscal finances.

Also, many people smoke regularly and very addicted to it. Just like people are able to get street drugs, people would start growing and rolling their own cigarettes, and they would only do more damage. At least Camel, Winston, etc. roll them professionally and air tight.

America is far too deep in the tobacco rut to simply out law smoking. But don't take my agreement as me supporting smoking, I'd never do it. I believe it is very unhealthy and my grandmother died of lung cancer when I was 14, or two years ago, caused by smoking her entire adult life. But nonetheless, many people would do whatever they would have to in order to get them.

The problem won't be fixed by simply making smoking illegal.

Answer 7

I believe that cigarettes will never be illegal and the reason is a big one; billions and billions of tax dollars. Texas alone collects over 1 billion dollars a year in cigarette tax.

In order to replace those tax dollars, they would have to heavily tax other items...milk? Bread? Candy bars? Alcohol? - I don't think so.

Besides, the tobacco lobby in Washington is too powerful, lines the pockets of too many legislators. Those money-grubbers would never kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Answer 8

Yes, I believe it should be illegal for several reasons.
Cigarettes share their disease with nonsmokers. Blowing their smoke in the air is more dangerous to others in the room than to them. That means children are getting lung disease, pneumonia, asthma & etc from adults who smoke.
It raises everyones insurance rates from cost of care of smokers & those around smokers.
It makes everyones hair & clothes smell like an old ashtray. I really hate this too.
It causes some businesses to have to by filtration systems.
The cost of cigarettes is a waste of money by many people who recieve public aid programs. i do not smoke & I do not want to supplement anyone else's cigarettes.

It is not a bad habit for the smokers only but for everyone.

Answer 9

I actually have thought about this a lot and I do think that it should be illegal if marjuana were to be illegal. I think it all has to do with how our economy depended on the tobacco plant and though tradition it has not been brought up as a serious matter but I actually think all drugs should be treated equally so if legislators say that marijuana is illegal, then cigarettes should be illegal too.

Answer 10

No, and I don't think marijuana should be illegal either.

It's true that smoking is dangerous to your health, but I don't think we need laws about every little thing in our lives.

Adult human beings are capable of making those decisions for themselves. If they decide to do something that's bad for their health, they will suffer the natural consequences.

I do believe that smoking should be restricted to smoking areas. In this, I'm more lenient than the people who would, for example, ban all smoking in restaurants. I liked the idea of separate smoking and non-smoking sections. I also think that buildings where people have to go outside to smoke, should have just one room indoors where smoking is permitted. I don't think the smokers should be forced to go outside in bad weather.

Answer 11

Yes i think smoking should be banned completely, It is a poison, And so it should be treated

The major political leaders of the world are cruel to allow it to be sold knowing that it ruins lives and greatly increases the risk of various types of cancer.

We should all start a campaign against smoking!