Why dont thet ban smoking?!?!? Permentaly?

Question

Estimated Per Capita Death Rates by Drugs


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Drug Users Deaths per Year Deaths per 100,000
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Tobacco 60 million 390,000 (a) 650
alcohol 100 million 150,000 (b) 150
Heroin 500,000 400 (c) 80 (400)
Cocaine 5 million 200 (c) 4 (20)
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I Mean there are more death by smoking and alcohol than heroine and they have named heroine a class A drug but if smoking isn't as bad but killing more of us why sell it to us, i no its expencive and have to be the age of 18 to buy but its rediculous, i mean im not in favour of heroine or anything but they might as well leagalise it

Answer 1

The only thing I could come up with is tax money

Answer 2

We live in a small town where they are trying to make it a "smoke-free" town! We are sooo excited about this! I have started to notice that there are many businesses posting signs that read "no smoking within 180 feet of the door". Woohoo!! I HATE going into a store where you have to pass through the brigade of smokers huffin' and puffin' away. I end up smelling like it while walking through the store. You know what? If someone wants to smoke, they can do it in their own home, but don't make the rest of us who don't BREATHE IT.

Do you know I actually saw someone pay for their groceries with cash and CHARGE their cigarettes to their credit card??? How pathetic is that? And JEFF? Never say never. Times are changing - politics are still the same, but CAN change. Trust me when I tell you...if the government lost the tax money from the sale of cigarettes, it wouldn't kill the economy. In fact, they would just increase taxes elsewhere - which they do every single day anyway. I would pay higher taxes if it meant the abolition of smoking.

i420ed??? Vegetarians will not develop problems by standing next to someone eating meat. Get real. There are laws against drinking and driving - yes, people break them and hurt others, but that wasn't the point to this person's question. There isn't anything being done to protect non-smokers from those that do smoke. My aunt has developed lung cancer - she's not a smoker - but has worked around them for years. Hmmm...get the point now?

Answer 3

They won't ban smoking and alcohol because it is needed!!! The fact of the matter is money. How many billionaires are in this country? How many people are in this country? It is obvious that the wealth is unevenly distributed and the rich continue to get richer on the backs of the poor. $50000 per year is comfortable to many, but it also isn't much too many as well. Thus with this large mass of blue collar workers, there must be some kind of opium to appease them. Smoking provides temporary relief of stress. Alcohol takes the edge off after a long day, and heightens emotions when out socially. Drugs provide a false sense of hope and well-being. As far as drugs are concerned, I see all these people bashing drug users. I do not blame people for using drugs when many of these people are living off $6.00 per hour. Unless you have been in poverty and felt the hopeless feeling of being poor, you cannot understand why people use illegal drugs; don’t be so quick to judge, but be quicker to understand why. The error in drug use is when there is extreme addiction. Drugs are good because many people are in terrible situations where hope and faith is just not there. Drugs help people to get by, just as alcohol and tobacco help people get by. For people out there bashing 'substance users' I am reminded of the crusades; killing and ravaging other cultures that do not conform to Christianity. People need to check themselves and discover the meaning of the word ethnocentricity. Frankly, don’t worry about what the man next to you is doing so much. When it directly affects you (i.e. drunk driving, 2nd hand smoke, burglary, etc.) that’s when control mechanisms should be placed and enforced. But banning these rights because of your personal beliefs abridges freedom. This is still America; I think.

Answer 4

I am not a smoker, but 1) the government taxes the heck out of tobacco products. Which is basically another way the government gets it's money. 2) If you ban smoking, the government doesn't gets it's money, which may cause other things to be taxed even more such as gas, food, or things that you may like that used to be cheap. 3) Just like drugs that are banned, it will go to street selling and people like drug pushers will make all the money. An example, prohibition in the United States and Al Capone. Then the government will start spending more money to capture people and put people in jail, which will caused higher taxes on you and me. 4) Other than a family member (my cousin died of lung cancer) if an adult is taught, educated, aware of the effects of smoking offered help, support, and alternative ways to kick the habit and still wants to smoke, it should not be yours, mine, or Americas fault. BUT IN SIMPLE TERMS WHY DON'T WE BAN SMOKING... ANSWER... M-O-N-E-Y.

Answer 5

It is not exactly feasible to ban smoking. Tobacco will be secretly grown and cigarettes will just go black market. The government would have to spend a ton of resources to fight against it. That means more taxes on the people and more law enforcement tied up fighting another hopeless cause. Our overcrowed legal system and prison system would just have even more people to process and take care of.

Also, it means less revenue for the government. There are taxes on the cigarettes. If you ban tobacco then it is impossible to gather taxes on cigarettes.

You can't ban everything. The more stuff that is banned, then the more oppressive the government becomes.

Answer 6

if they made it a law to NEVER raise the price of a pack of cigarettes, the tobacco companies would not be able to make a profit and cease to sell them.

It is the STATES, that want the taxes, that make this a problem.

Nonsmoker: can we have 5% of the room? 10? 25? 50?
Smoker? yes

We want 100% and I WILL put a commercial on t.v. calling you a BUTTHEAD!

Now I as a smoker am VERY careful on what I give away. Even though things make sense.......ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS ARE TAKEN AWAY........(and smoking is a small part of it)

Answer 7

A town in California just passed a bill that prohibits smoking in multi unit dwellings due to exposure to second hand smoke.
Smoking will never be banned completely. The tobacco companies pay HUGE amounts of money to political interest groups to basically buy influence. Money buys power, and because of this we will never see a smoking ban in this country.

Answer 8

If people choose to smoke then let them get on with it, they know there damaging there health...believe it or not people who smoke aren't stupid! Its about giving people freedom to do what they want to do. If there were ban on smoking then what would be banned next.... Big Mac's or sweets with "E" numbers? Yes smoking is unhealthy and some people might find it anti social but everybody is different. Imagine living in a society where everyone is perfectly healthy...it would be creepy!
You shouldn't be coming out with a long drone of facts and figures, when you clearly don't understand what it feels like to be addicted to something harmful and try to quit it.

Answer 9

Southern states make a tremendous amount of money from tobacco. Money means influence on government officials. Easy.

Answer 10

Here in Australia smoker's are limited to where they can smoke.