What would happen if the major cigarette companies were destroyed?

Question

What would happen to our economy if, let's just say someone bombed the heck out of all the major cigarette companies and destroyed them??

What would the long term effects be?

Educational and logical answers will receive the best votes!

Answer 1

Our economy would totaly be screwed! Taxes on Everything else would have to triple just to bring in the revenue that tobbaco does. Besides the millions of people that would be out of work.

Answer 2

Why would someone BOMB a major cigarette company. In essence, the bomber would kill a lot of people in a shorter time span than the cigarette company would have.

Still, I really and truly think that if a major cigarette company was destroyed - say if cigarettes were proven to cause cancer :P - then I'd say that people would find another vice to fill the void. Note that people who smoke tend to be the people who consume large quantities of coffee.

I guess Starbucks IS eventually going to take over the world.

In all honesty, the media or a PSA group would rally to bring another topic into focus - like people trying to save the economy - first you save the individual, then you save the people. Quote me on that.

Answer 3

Tobacco is grow on farms not manufactured, so the tobacco would be sold in bulk and smokers would roll their own cigarettes. That's what marijuana smokers do now, and what smokers did before the big companies existed. If the companies were not allowed to rebuild smoking may decline over time, because making your own cigarettes is time consuming and messy, but there would no money to pay for anti-smoking commercials, so maybe not. Governments would miss the revenue, but would tax bulk tobacco to get some of it back, but taxing farmers is less popular than taxing corporations so they could not recover all the lost revenue, so your taxes would increase. The manufacture of home cigarette rolling machines would become a profitable business.

Answer 4

They would be rebuilt... because it is legal to smoke and because it is a demand... economy would slope severely and black market cigarettes would go through the roof.
I'm sure cigarette companies would bounce back and they'd probably use government grants to help pay for it.
you also have to look at the effect of all the jobs that would be lost... all the money those people that lost jobs wouldn't be spending and how much money people would be paying for black market stock cigarettes. --- if people are producing their own cigarettes because they'd be hard to come by the government wouldn't be getting all those tax dollars --- and we know that can't be possible. -- I'm sure it would be similar to what happened during prohibition with alcohol (assume for some off colored reason they didn't immediately rebuild)

Answer 5

Logically, certain areas of the country who rely on the jobs created by the tobacco industry would be devastated. Typically when a large industry suddenly leaves an area for one reason or the next, the surrounding areas die out. The tax base in many communities would be hurt, so some health related progremmes would be cut back, and my friend who smokes two packs a day would turn into a total ******.. heck if he goes a few hours without a smoke, he's intolerable.

Answer 6

We won't be able to smoke anymore, so short of grabbing a handful of grass from the garden, or rolling up banana skins, there would be no smokers in the world. Then the lung cancer patients would diminish and then the lung cancer doctors and nurses would have to specialise in something new in order to stay employed. They would be competing with the cigarette manufacturers for jobs on the market. The governments would have to dream up a new tax in order to keep their kitty afloat, and the rest of us would therefore have another good excuse to moan about them.

Answer 7

They would just build new ones (they have enough money to do so).If this is about trying to stop smoking,education of the risks are the only way.To ban or destroy cigarette companies outright would only lead to the misuse of other addictive substances,so it would be kind of pointless I think.

Answer 8

Well you would be destroying a major industry. Not to mention all the jobs people would lose. Not only in the tobacco industry, but in the health care industry too. Less people would be sick. So you would need less doctors nurses, etc.

I am not a smoker and understand it is unhealthy, but I am looking at it from a different angle.

Answer 9

Long term effects, the smaller companys would make more money, you honestly don't think that that would cause everyone to quite smoking do you.

Answer 10

DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT BOMBING CIGARETTE COMPANIES!!!! Cause If I cant get my cigarettes cause you bombed the Marlboro Company,,,,Im hunting you down!!! LOL! Just kiddin!