If cigarettes are so bad for people then, they should be illigal for people to buy. Don't you think that the manufacturer's of this product should have to pay the blunt of the tax's not the smoker. The manufacture's are producer's of the bad product and are the one's who sell the product and made the people addicted. In Drug term's the manufacturer are the "PUSHER'S". The goverment is taxing the wrong people.
If the United State's Goverment is so concerned about drug's then, why have the not distroryed all the poppy plants in Afganistan? Where a great deal of the heroin come's from. Sound's like the Goverment does not real care about there people. But are only intrested in stuffing there pockets with as much cash as they can.
DO YOU THINK THAT POLITICANS ARE REAL PASSING LAWS IN THE BEST INTREST OF THE PEOPLE? ..... DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR GOVERMENT IS RERESENTING YOU?
2007-08-25 12:37:30 · 11 answers · asked by sept154 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No federal, state or local government is willing to give up the enormous tax revenues gleaned from the manufacture, distribution and sale of cigarettes. So, they choose to penalize those who are addicted to a legal substance by taxing them for buying cigarettes and banning them from smoking a legal substance in public places. It's the biggest scam politicians have going...
Besides, if you ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of cigarettes, you would see the same thing that happened during Prohibition: organized crime would benefit. -RKO- 08/25/07
2007-08-25 13:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the government, all government, including the federal, state, and local governments are doing a poor job of educating children. Take for example the diatribe you posted here. You have misspelled more words than I wish to count, you have several run on sentences, and your punctuation is pretty bad.
On the other hand, if you're in second grade, you did a really nice job on this post for your age.
You can't just take away the cigarettes of 80 million people. That is a pretty large voting block. I don't smoke but I always vote against the people who want to do me a favor and protect me (most democrats/some socialists/some republicans). Making smoking illegal would put a lot of congressmen out of work, give the police a lot of overtime, and be the most ignored law since prohibition.
Once again we need to look at education. Cigarettes are bad but so is being rude, eating too many calories a day, driving a car and talking on a cell phone, getting divorced, etc. If you don't like a smoker than don't associate with them. Treat them as you would someone who smells awful. I don't go over to peoples homes who smoke because their home kind of stinks of tobacco and I don't feel like smelling their homes. I can still like them outside their homes though and will even chat with them outdoors if they're smoking.
Oh by the way you can always use the "check spelling" button before you post messages.
2007-08-25 13:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by eric b 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Laws dictating vices rarely have the outcome desired.
There are a host of ills that people enjoy engaging in - it is not the government's place to decide what a person does or does not ingest. Wine, beer, liquor, drugs, cigarettes, fatty food, Red Bull or anything else.
It never works. See: Prohibition.
2007-08-25 13:01:56 · answer #3 · answered by pepper 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The goverment wants whats best for them not the people. Tobbaco brings in a huge amount of tax money for them so they would never get rid of it. Just like any other product!
2007-08-25 12:45:44 · answer #4 · answered by bRoWn EyEd BeAuTy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Glad you asked this question. Tobacco sales are funding
health insurance programs nationwide. Additionally the taxes
that are being raked in are in the billions. Do you REALLY
think these 'snakes' running the government want to give up all that money? No way!
You are correct, if tobacco is sooooooooooooo bad then ban it! NEVER HAPPEN!!
2007-08-25 13:46:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know alot of people that would smoke either way , or go to harder drugs if cigarettes were illegal because most people smoke to relieve anxiety and stress .
2007-08-25 12:46:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, very broad, sweeping statements and questions which bear minimal connection to each other. What were you smoking? Try the patch.
2007-08-25 20:33:09 · answer #7 · answered by MALIBU CANYON 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A free will. Other type of weapons of mass destruction is the fast food industry. We need to have some will power.
2007-08-25 13:32:31 · answer #8 · answered by Ulrika 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No than they can't get the taxes from them.
2007-08-25 12:45:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
the same reason they dont make beer illegal
2007-08-25 13:04:50 · answer #10 · answered by tammy g 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋