cigarettes should be outlawed

chadwick
chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
edited October 2011 in A Moving Train
cigarettes should be made illegal. what do you good people believe? i believe the government is out of order with the fact that we can all smoke ourselves to death if we like beings cigarettes are beyond addictive.

some folks have zero willpower; this will lead to their demise.

the government is making a fortune off tobacco corporations. it is a proven fact that booze and cigarettes are so much worse for our health than marijuana.

this place (the usa) is out of control. very scary.
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  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,980
    Free country and we all have choices, if I choose to smoke, I will. Us smokers have already made enough concessions as far as smoking outside now, paying more money (which is my problem and I choose to do it), so no they don't need to be illegal and if they are made illegal the black market will boom.
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  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,547
    chadwick wrote:
    cigarettes should be made illegal. what do you good people believe? i believe the government is out of order with the fact that we can all smoke ourselves to death if we like beings cigarettes are beyond addictive.

    some folks have zero willpower; this will lead to their demise.

    the government is making a fortune off tobacco corporations. it is a proven fact that booze and cigarettes are so much worse for our health than marijuana.

    this place (the usa) is out of control. very scary.

    Cigarettes are just one of a hundred things on the market sold "legally" that kill people who use them.
  • caifan82
    caifan82 Mexico City Posts: 321
    Please no... the world, specially my country, doesn't need a war on tobacco on top of the war on drugs... (and you know, the minute cigarettes are outlawed in the US, they would be outlawed here too).

    I HATE cirgarettes, I think smoking (and everything related to it) is extremely disgusting... but I hate it more when governments try to tell people what they can or can't do to themselves. If someone wants to slowly kill himself with cigarettes, that's ok with me. Just don't do it anywhere near me. Oh, and please, use a fucking ashtray. thank you.
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  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    chadwick wrote:
    cigarettes should be made illegal. what do you good people believe? i believe the government is out of order with the fact that we can all smoke ourselves to death if we like beings cigarettes are beyond addictive.

    some folks have zero willpower; this will lead to their demise.

    the government is making a fortune off tobacco corporations. it is a proven fact that booze and cigarettes are so much worse for our health than marijuana.

    this place (the usa) is out of control. very scary.

    smoke em if you got em, or smoke some dope, crack, coke, huff paint, shoot some heroin, snort some meth, use steroids, hgh, get stem cells from fetuses, use a prostitute, base jump...
    this place is out of control...but I think we may disagree as to how
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,895
    BLACK35 wrote:
    Free country and we all have choices, if I choose to smoke, I will. Us smokers have already made enough concessions as far as smoking outside now, paying more money (which is my problem and I choose to do it), so no they don't need to be illegal and if they are made illegal the black market will boom.

    Oh yeah, thanks for those "concessions" so that me and my kid don't get cancer from your choice. :roll:
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,895
    caifan82 wrote:
    but I hate it more when governments try to tell people what they can or can't do to themselves.

    This is true. In this situation it gets tricky because they are having an effect on those around them not choosing to smoke.

    And I think business owners that allow smoking in their establishments are putting themselves at great risk for future lawsuits from employees that get lung cancer from second hand smoke.
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Laws should be Outlawed.
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,895
    BinauralJam wrote:
    Laws should be Outlawed.

    My head just exploded. :lol:
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  • WaveCameCrashin
    WaveCameCrashin Posts: 2,929
    chadwick wrote:
    cigarettes should be made illegal. what do you good people believe? i believe the government is out of order with the fact that we can all smoke ourselves to death if we like beings cigarettes are beyond addictive.

    some folks have zero willpower; this will lead to their demise.

    the government is making a fortune off tobacco corporations. it is a proven fact that booze and cigarettes are so much worse for our health than marijuana.

    this place (the usa) is out of control. very scary.

    :roll: it's not the governments role to decide what we can or cannot put into our bodies. What makes you think if they out law cigarettes that somehow they would legalize pot.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Another age of Prohibition... sounds enticing.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
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  • Juan Godoy
    Juan Godoy Posts: 490
    i used to smoke but i quit in january..

    but does not allowed me to tell the people should do the same.. i agree about the prohibition of smoking in some areas (like the bus or train) but people must have choice.. besides.. if you can't smoke.. can you talk about liberty??
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    I don't think they should be outlawed but a non smoker should be able to slap around a smoker if they light up near kids.
  • London Bridge
    London Bridge USA Posts: 4,733
    What about the rights of a child? Do they get a say in this matter?
    It must be nice for them inside a smoke filled house or car :roll:
  • drmrkelley
    drmrkelley Posts: 141
    BabaBooey1979 wrote:
    I don't think they should be outlawed but a non smoker should be able to slap around a smoker if they light up near kids.

    Agreed!
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  • Juan Godoy
    Juan Godoy Posts: 490
    London Bridge wrote:
    What about the rights of a child? Do they get a say in this matter?
    It must be nice for them inside a smoke filled house or car :roll:


    that depends on his parents
  • CorduroyGirl
    CorduroyGirl Posts: 283
    cincybearcat wrote:
    This is true. In this situation it gets tricky because they are having an effect on those around them not choosing to smoke.

    And I think business owners that allow smoking in their establishments are putting themselves at great risk for future lawsuits from employees that get lung cancer from second hand smoke.

    Well, my experience applies only to my country, of course, but... As for second hand smoking, non-smokers have a lot more options than smokers nowadays, it's the smokers that are set aside to some "isolated corner" or have their going out choices very reduced. Which is ok, we accept we cannot be harming others so if we chose to smoke, we will have to do so on the areas that are reserved for that, even if it is outside and it's raining... Too bad!

    As for the business owner, that's pretty much their choice, if they want to take the risk... That doesn't make it all better for an employee who got cancer, of course, but the employee also knows second hand smoking may have consequences (who doesn't?) so that has to be taken under consideration when accepting a job.

    I don't want to sound cold or as if I'm defending this particular addiction. I'm not. I think it is nasty even speaking as a smoker. But I also think that it is not that difficult not to expose oneself to smoke these days.
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    obesity kills a lot (more than cigs, I think) of people too. should we outlaw cheeseburgers and coca-cola?

    what about car crashes? they kill so many people... should we all just walk around instead of using transportation of any kind, since people die?

    but that's pretty dangerous, too. let's just put nerf padding on the entire world so everyone is "safe."

    sheesh guys, the last thing we need is more people telling other people what to do. It sickens me.
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  • CorduroyGirl
    CorduroyGirl Posts: 283
    he still stands wrote:
    obesity kills a lot (more than cigs, I think) of people too. should we outlaw cheeseburgers and coca-cola?

    what about car crashes? they kill so many people... should we all just walk around instead of using transportation of any kind, since people die?

    but that's pretty dangerous, too. let's just put nerf padding on the entire world so everyone is "safe."

    sheesh guys, the last thing we need is more people telling other people what to do. It sickens me.

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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,384
    CorduroyGirl wrote:
    he still stands wrote:
    obesity kills a lot (more than cigs, I think) of people too. should we outlaw cheeseburgers and coca-cola?

    what about car crashes? they kill so many people... should we all just walk around instead of using transportation of any kind, since people die?

    but that's pretty dangerous, too. let's just put nerf padding on the entire world so everyone is "safe."

    sheesh guys, the last thing we need is more people telling other people what to do. It sickens me.

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