by tobacco i mena ciggerates in general. I belive they should be illegal because they cause so much death even from second hand smoking. i know peolpe go nuts without there nicotine but they have gum and patches that will help. i want to know your opinions on this subject at hand. (wether or not it should be illegal and why)
When the US congress banned alcohol, consumption went up, and organized crime shot through the roof. The American mobs are here today because of the prohibition act. Banning cigarettes would just give the mob one more thing to sell.
Not only that, it is my choice to smoke if I want to. I was a smoker for a few years. I quit, but I enjoyed it. It was my choice to start, and my choice to stop. By eliminating choice, you are eliminating freedom.
The government should not be there to take care of us from cradle to grave. Once the government starts telling us what is good and what is bad, it leads to oppression.
I quit, but I enjoyed it. It was my choice to start, and my choice to stop.
I haven't smoked so please tell me what was enjoyable, the relief your nicotine hungry mind? You might have had the willpower to stop, but alot of people choose to stop, but they can't. Most people I ask say they want to quit, I actually haveen't seen a single person who said they wanted to continue.
sorry for the double post >.< but i didn't relieze this at first...
By eliminating choice, you are eliminating freedom.
Yes but your not just endangering yourself, second hand smoke is just, if not more as dangerouse as smoking, now you oppressed someone elses freedom to stay drug free. You have freedoms, but you dont have the freedom to opress others freedoms.
IMHO (and, AFAIK, that of the medical community), our primary concern is undoing the damage that aggressive cigarette marketing has done throughout the previous decades. The battle between continued corporate profits and the expense of freedoms (insofar as freedoms actually apply) is never so clear as it is in the advertising battles between the tobacco companies and the health-conscious initiatives.
Despite the simple conclusion: smoking is demonstrably bad for you and everybody else almost invariably, this is not actually a simple issue. There are a number of other social factors that influence smoking- some of the more desirable side-effects of smoking (weight-loss, for example), are significantly reported factors that can be argued to account for trends in smoking, in particular, that in the Western countries at least, females have increased rates of smoking whilst males have decreased. Furthermore, the damage done to smoking corporations will affect funds placed elsewhere, most notably sports team sponsorships and programmes.
It is clear that (again, insofar as it applies) there is a direct conflict in freedoms here, so applying the "we have right to freedom" argument as a blanket statement is foolish. There are people who believe that freedom includes the ability to live in a smoke-free environment. To the contrary, there are people who believe that freedom includes the ability to smoke where you want. In this situation, a compromise has to be reached, and what we've seen so far in this regard is to designate smoking and non-smoking areas. However, the unequivocal evidence of its harmfulness also has to be taken into due consideration so restrictions must be placed on where one can smoke so that persons who do not wish to be exposed to smoke do not have this wish infringed: according to one of the most basic tenets of freedoms (re: John Mills' work), so long as there is no positive discrimination against those who smoke, non-smokers are entitled to exert their right to clean air. Furthermore there are secondary negative effects observed from the smoking population as a whole (not saying anything about particular individuals), that being litter and accidental fires that frequently result from failure to properly dispose of a cigarette stub.
That's why in certain areas, smoking has to be outright banned. Hospitals, offices and outside air vents are two notable examples. A more controversial example (in Australia, again) was the banning of smoking inside pubs and bars- this being a less clear-cut case, money wins. The business and customer satisfaction at said pubs and bars improved considerably once the stains and the smoky air cleared.
im not sure making it illegal is the answer as people would still smoke. Maybye taxing cigarettes heavily to make it too expensive a habit is a way forward, as people would still have the choice to smoke but would also give up lots of their income doing it
making smoking illegal would hurt a lot of people financially, tobacco farmers would suddenly be out of a job or out of a lot of money because they would have to change types of plants.. i smoke cigars on rare occasions, i have never craved a cigar, i enjoy smoking them because things kinda slow down because it takes a while to smoke them plus i get to talk to the person im smoking cigars with..
legalizing marijuana is ridiculous.. what is the positive part of it?? massive amounts of drug abuses? ive never smoked it.. ive worked with people who do it, and they do it while they are at work and its ridiculous.. they are high while they are working in a hospital..
this is a little ironic itself, a large majority of respiratory technicians at hospitals smoke, funny since that is the line of work they are trying to fix..
im not sure making it illegal is the answer as people would still smoke. Maybye taxing cigarettes heavily to make it too expensive a habit is a way forward, as people would still have the choice to smoke but would also give up lots of their income doing it
people would just complain about how much it costs and still buy them.. much like gasoline.. people will complain daily about prices but let their car get near E and they will fill up their car..
Yes but GreatZulu638 they wouldnt be able to but as many packs, and it would discourage younger smokers like 14-15 who have 2 pay for it themselves with their own pocket $ as they dont have jobs, so i think it could definitely stop younger people from starting smoking.
@ woody_7007 i agree that something should be done because i think it isnt something that is highly intelligent, i have seen a few cases of people being smart(ish) about it, ie smoking outside their car and not around their kids, but for every one or two that do the right thing there are so many more that do the wrong, even if we did make it illegal people would still do it... look at marijuana... its illegal.. the taxes going up would be smart probably, as long as the money went to something good, in Arkansas a while back they made a tax on cigarettes and the money went to a hospital..
A tax cud work cos smokers would be discouraged and if the $ went to a goood cause then the smokers cudnt complain cos den they wud b sayin dat they r against a gud cause
well in the past 1-3 years Texarkana, TX added a tax on cigarettes but the people i talked to, they just went to Texarkana, AR to buy cigarettes or just complained about it...
