why not make smoking illegal oh yea the goverment make a huge ammount of money from them.?

Question

as people are addicted the govmnt can make them do what ever they want

Answer 1

If they ban smoking, where do you think the millions pounds of tax will come from that pays for the NHS? Its all boll*x.

Answer 2

There is the other problem with making smoking illegal. If that happens then cigarettes will have the same status as a class b or c drug and cigarette smoking would be driven underground and into the illegal arena.

Unfortunately the solution to most drug taking is to decriminalise it and reduce the ability for the dealers to make huge profits.

This would be politically impossible, but would move drug taking into the same arena as smoking; where the producers and the users are both taxed and prices are set by the market plus the government's cut.

Then all that needs to be done is to make it as anti social as smoking has become.

Answer 3

Yeah smoking is bad but what about in Nevada where gambling is legal. Nevada taxes the casinos and where does all that money go to?: to help fund education, fund medical hospitals, and fund new roads and highways. I'm not saying gambling and smoking is good or moral. I'm saying since the people who have already set their minds on smoking for the rest of their life, why not use their money to help a good cause. I love the American government because the American government is what makes USA the greatest country.

Answer 4

People may not wouldn't care how smokers killed themselves if it weren't for the fact they're giving others around, who're trying to live healthy lives, heart and lung diseases though passive-smoke

To address the question at face value, smoking-related illness costs the NHS £2b annually. Tax receipts are nearly £10b

However this is a poor comparison because tobacco tax is also supposed to encourage smokers to cut down or quit or better still never start

15 people an hour die as a result of smoking-related illnesses
Second-hand smokers suffer the same diseases (lung & heart disease) as first-hand smokers

It is estimated that tobacco related illness costs some 50 million lost working days per year, which is about 1% of the total working days. A Canadian study found that smoking breaks cost $2,175 (Canadian) per smoker per year -- about £1,000

Smoking causes fires and accidents - most notoriously the Kings Cross Underground fire in 1987 in which 31 people died. In 1996, smoking was thought to be responsible for 5,400 fires, causing 187 deaths and 1,982 casualties.

Space is given over to smoking rooms, and extra expenditure on ventilation. Smoking causes damage to property, redecorating, and cleaning costs.

Impact on non-smokers. Passive smoking causes several hundred, and maybe several thousand deaths in non-smokers. 17,000 under-5s are hospitalised each year as a result of respiratory conditions caused by their parents smoking.

The 'social cost' -- or the value that society places on life. Government cost-benefit analysis for road accidents attributes a value of around £800,000 for each road accident death. Though the figures are not strictly comparable, multiplying this by the smoking-related death toll of 120,000 per year gives £96 billion per year, and some indication of the scale of the social costs (i.e. the expenditure deemed justifiable in other areas of public policy to avoid loss of life).

Answer 5

Making smoking illegal is absurd. People are also addicted to eating, exercise, soap operas, caffeine, etc. Just because it can cause health problems is NOT an appropriate base to outlaw it.

Answer 6

your right its all about the money, just like with alcohol the government make a windfall of money off all the vices people have actually its descriminating in my opinion taxing people extra because they smoke or drink thers alot of people who dont eat chocolate or drink coffee should we tax those who do more its rediculous

Answer 7

I've always said, what the cigarette companies should do is get togeather and refuse to sell cigarettes to a particular state (say, California). As that states tax revenue starts to dwindle, tell the other states, "Now get off our backs, or we'll do the same to you."

Answer 8

Because with this smoking law they wanna please non smokers and at the same time make tonnes of money from the tax they recieve

Answer 9

uhhh, maybe it has to do more with individual rights, but that's something you hippies could careless about, right?