how can the government allow a product that says smoking kills to be sold?

Question

I dont know of any other product on sale that says this kills you
and is allowed to be sold i think it is incredible
i know the government makes a fortune out of it but i just
cannot get my head around the fact that they are allowed
to get away with it ,is it just me?

Answer 1

aerosols also say this can kill you if you inhale them

Answer 2

Traffic accidents is one of the highest causes of death in children and young adults, yet we do not have warnings on the side of the car that we drive.
Drinking alcohol is the second highest cause of death related to drug use, yet we don't have huge warnings on the side of those either.
The trouble is the govenment make a huge amount of money combined with a significant minority of people who are tobacco users means that it would be almost political suicide for any government in the UK and the USA to ban them outright, however due to scientific data being so strong in the link between smoking related illness and the use of tobacco, they have to show that they care for the people they govern, if they didn't they would also be out at the next election. The government are stuck between a rock and a hard place on this subject.

Answer 3

you have to remember which way round history has evovled this situation

first we had ciggies and they were deemed healthy and good for you and were also seen as a status symbol

remember back then that was all that mattered
as time has gone by the government has seen it as a great revenue builder

then come the times of the lung cancer patients who would try to sue the cigarette companies for not telling them it was bad, the government having taken such a lump of tax from them were seen to be involved ...so the government were pressured into forcing a legislation that puts a warning on the packet ... now noone can complain that they didnt know smoking could cause cancer etc etc.
cigarette advertising was also banned
now we come to the cunundrum of the present day for many many years these manufacturers have been making cigarettes ans selling them with a huge profit going to the government in tax revenue.
the government dont have the power to shut down such large companies and are also reluctant to try too hard because then they would have to find (APROXIMATELY) 36BILLION a year in revenue from somewhere else

im an ex smoker of 3 years and can now not see the sense in inhaling smoke ... you stink .. cough ... cant taste things ..... but thats my opinion, if everyone thought that way it would be easy


BUT THEY DONT

Answer 4

Let's get real for a moment, shall we...
Using your logic...(you brought it up...I didn't...)

We'll also have to outlaw...

1. Cheese, and all diary products in general...including the worst...Ice Cream (clogging up the arteries and ruining the hearts of millions of Americans everyday...) (so cows are gonna have to go, as well)
2. Our cars...(spewing killing gases into the atmosphere...a sort of mass "second hand smoke," if you will...(and I don't imagine anyone is gonna vote to give up their SUV's...)
3. Computers & Cell Phones & Disposable Diapers...(filling up the landfills will "killing" toxic waste products that are leaching into the water table, poisoning our drinking water, and spreading infectious diseases and bacteria throughout the nation...)
And on and on it would go...
You'll have to outlaw (illegalize) just about everything we buy and consume...

Understand...?

Just relax and enjoy life, and try not to think too much about the big picture (unless you're heart is into being an obsessed, hypocritical activist who thinks so much about trying to help the masses, they forget to help even one person...)...
We help society more by "legalizing" things that are unhealthy, because then we can "legally" treat the affected consumers, and more easily educate the population of the dangers...
You're thinking inside/out, my zealous anti-smoking friend...wake up and wise up...

Answer 5

Just cause you dont smoke pull your head in get off your high horse and jam it sidways where the sun dont shine, I dont try and make smoking compulsory and I am respectful when in public with my habit. So mind your own business stop being a smoking hitler and consider that if it wasnt for smokers absorbing the extra tax your income tax petrol and gst or sales tax would rise. Like a drink do u, you couldnt afford it if they didnt get tax out of smokes. If smoking became illegal you would make criminals out of honest people because an addicted smoker wont stop just cause you tell them to. And dont feed me this shiit about how it all goes to the health system you naive little freak. I will fight for your civil liberties, do not challenge mine.

Answer 6

$$$ money money money money money.
the pharmeceutical industry gets away with being the 5th or somethingth like that leading cause of death in the country, and these are legally prescribed drugs administered by a physician, mostly in a hospital setting. Adverse side effects, crossing incompatible drugs, overdosing, misdiagnosis and treatment...i dont know, but the pharmeceutical industry makes bajillions of dollars off this stuff. im sure tobacco makes just as much. but the fact is that they are both allowed to keep it up! at least the cigarettes have a warning on them that you can read, while the medications' contraindications and cautions are too small to read with a microscope.

plus, our country/government is founded by tobacco farmers. and slave traders/owners. who happened to be rich white landowning males. who happened to write the foundations for todays present government, reserving all "inaliable" rights to people of similar racial, financial and social status and background. so, im not too suprised of any harebrained scheme they come up with.

Answer 7

the government can only do what the public will let them. they can't just ban it, but by slowly controlling the use of it more and more (e.g. labeling, not allowing advertising, high tax, restricting where you can use it) they can gradually build up support for eventually banning it's use. in twenty year time I reckon we'll have the same for alcohol, then salt, then reality television!

if they did want to ban it i think a good way would be to raise the age you can buy them by a year every year so its harder for new generations to get hooked.

Answer 8

Money , population reduction and the globalists that own the cigarette companys own our governments at the very top because they are all members of the illuminati .

Answer 9

You can't blame the government for people making stupid choices in life. If it were taken off the market, we would have the biggest bootleg surge in history, even bigger that when they tried to ban liquor. People have to start taking responsibility for their own health. My brother died recently of leukemia from smoking.

What the government should do is force the tobacco companies to stop adding ingredients that make it so habit forming. They have recently increased the addictive ingredient.

Answer 10

i used to take a drug for my lower back problem which had been known to kill, directly due to that being used too.

it was taken off of the market.

i agree with you, they do it cos they are hypocrites and want the tax revenue of cigarettes.

that is all.

Answer 11

i agree with u that it's a stupid thing to sell something that kills people, but it's even more stupid that people keep buying it anyway. unforunately, that's what addiction does. if the government did stop the selling of cigs, there would be a lot of nicotine addicts who would do everything they could to get cigarettes sold again, and that's why they'll keep selling it for that money.