Comparing illegal drugs to cigarette's...?

Question

If you compare illegal drugs to cigaretts in a way that over time both are destructive to your health. Why does the government push to get drugs off the streets but lets cigarett companies legaly produce. And then its the consumers fault if they smoke and die but not tobaco companies fault, unless they issue warning. Why don't they legalize drugs and put warnings on the packages!

Answer 1

Because the government makes poor decisions. They want to micro-manage everyones life and property. They inadvertantly help fund the drug cartels and the violence that comes with it. They make money by fining or imprisoning offenders while taking people from thier jobs and families, ultimately making other citizens pay for it. The myth ascociated with drug users is that they wont work and steal to support thier habbit. This myth is very mis-leading and not true. Thier are millions of drug addicts just in the U.S.A alone that work, take care of thier families and support thier habbit with hard earned money. Ciggaretts alter a persons mind just as with any drug and the addiciton from ciggaretts is very powerful. Basically the government is a poor decision maker.

Answer 2

I believe a much more accurate parallel can be drawn by comparing illegal drugs to alcohol. Both are destructive, mind numbing substances which lead to many, many social problems.
I can't help but believe that legalizing drugs would have a very detrimental effect on society in general. Their dependency and addictive characteristics are evidenced and proved by the wide spread use and associated crime - even though they are illegal, many otherwise law abiding citizens will do most anything to get their next fix.
I am a smoker - have been for a long time - but if cigarettes were banned tomorrow, I would not (actual local events) climb over the counter at the local drug store with a butcher knife and demand Oxycontin - nor would I rob a pharmacy at gun point, not for cash, but for drugs.
To conclude, I just don't believe many people could use drugs in a responsible manner and that could only lead to serious consequences.

Answer 3

For starters, illegal drugs are a lot worse for you. While you may get addicted the first time you smoke, you won't get lung cancer or emphazima unless you do it long-term. However, with drugs such as pot studies have shown that short-term use can be very damaging, and the long-term damages are damage-spots on the brain, quite a bit more severe than anything that has been gotten from even second hand smoke. Personally, I think drugs and prostitution should be legalized. A.) It would give organized crime two fewer ways to make a successful product B.) It would make both of them safer through regulations, warnings, and licensing, and C.) Societies could be bringing in tax dollars from them instead of spending tax dollars trying to fight it, which no matter how many millions and billions we spend someone, somewhere is going to do it.

Answer 4

First of all, too many people smoke cigarettes and it's too large of a market to make them illegal. It would be the most idiotic law passed since prohibition. But, i also believe the theory is that drugs are much more directly dangerous to others. For example, if a teenager smokes pot, and tries to drive while he's high, hes very likely get into some sort of accident and injure others. Also, as dangerous to a person's health as cigarettes are, highly addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine are much more dangerous as far as the possibility of death by overdosing.

Answer 5

Why? nicely they are not however the government cant legislate in a manner that would desire to enable them to be taxed and controlled as an industry or import so as that they are not criminal subsequently they're extra solid to get and are addictive with the intention to get them via committing against the regulation for the money to purchase them isn't plenty a stretch for the addicted seeing as how they're already breaking the regulation via making use of them interior the 1st place and that's the genesis of the parable that they are risky or a minimum of extra risky than cigarettes (an oppressively over regulated, taxed and legislated product and industry)

Answer 6

I think it has to do with cigarettes not being mind altering. I think most people would agree that illegal drugs have mind altering effects.

Answer 7

Because of bleeding heart "social conscience" losers, who think that they're doing a humanitarian thing by protecting idiots from themselves. Also, there's the whole argument of how drug addiction can eventually degrade a person's performance at work, causing him/her to lose his/her job, which would in turn lead to a life of crime, victimizing all of society. Or so the argument goes.

Answer 8

Drugs alter your mind and the way you function, cigs don't