What would happen if the major cigarette companies were destroyed? Hypothetically speaking...?

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?

Answer 1

The tobacco industry is dominated by the largest companies in the world. Billions of tax dollar revenues are generated by tobacco sales and thousands of farmers are invested. An analysis I read a few years ago during a smoke out as an RN of what you allude to (aside from the moronic part about bombing) indicated that our economy would collapse. There's that how entwined money flows in the industry. As for health considerations and such fantasizing about what industries might be "done away with", more than 20 times the deaths than tobacco related are due to gluttony and obesity, costing the U.S. taxpayer and U.S. businesses in health care costs, absenteeism and reduced productivity over $100 BILLION dollars every single year. Obesity is the priority. Second-hand smoke is astronomically less dangerous than simple car exhaust fumes. A cigarette smoker emits less of the same dangerous polluting chemicals into the air in a year than an average car emits in ONE DAY. The focus on cigarette pollution away from petroleum pollution and the devastation on our health and environment was not accidental.

Answer 2

People would be healthier. The cigarette company owners might have to get an honest job.

Answer 3

The only effect would be to void the state lawsuits because the firms paying the money would not exist. New firms are exempt since they would not have been a party to deception.

Answer 4

Since all 50 states borrowed millions from the Tobacco Agreement, your state taxes will sharply increase.

Answer 5

Economic disaster whose ripple effects would be felt around the world.

Answer 6

the smaller ones would take over

Answer 7

We'd have to smoke weed and crack. Yipee!