If so many people have died from smoking and drinking then why is it legal?
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It's called government lobbyists. Try to ban smoking in North Carolina..you'd get NOWHERE with that. And Prohibition..what did that do to our country? People were still drinking..remember those Walton sisters who made their own moonshine in their basement? That must have been worse for you than what you can get at the supermarket now I would imagine.
By the way, I HATE smokers. Well, most of the time the people who smoke are nice, but I hate that they blow their bad breath smoke in my face, they litter their butts all over the place, and they are still stupid enough to pay $7.00 for a carton of cigarettes in New York. Don't forget those yellow teeth.
Drinking on the other hand-I have nothing against that. As long as some dumb-*** doesn't get behind a wheel after having 15 shots of tequila that is. It's their business if they want to ruin their livers. But then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to be put on any organ donor's lists..
Such a broad topic and I am sure you will get many differing and interesting answers.
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Because our government is making tons of money from these two industries!
The world would suck. Cigarettes and alcohol help people unwind.
People die in car accidents all the time. Should cars be illegal?
Do you know how many people die from driving? the same reason sky diving is still legal. Free will.
Because of corporate greed. I quit cigs 2 months ago, it was probably the hardest thing I've ever done. Now I compromise and have a cigar every once in awhile, keeps down the smoking cravings. I drink maybe once a week. Like I said, its all corporate greed, same reason marijuana isn't legal.
How many people have been electrocuted accidentally? Why not declare electricity illegal.
It's about responsibility. take it into your hands and make up your own mind. Quit looking for an excuse to invite the government into some other facets of our lives. You choose to smoke, you choose to drink, you know the risks.
Part of being an adult. knowing the facts and making a decision.
I think that it's great that our doctors and scientists can now determine, better than ever before, what is and what isn't good for you.
I want this information to be available and I want people to strongly consider this information before taking an action on what is and what isn't good for you.
But what I do not want, no matter how bad something is for me, is for the government to tell me that I can't do it.
I have absolutely no reason to believe that my government or any other government has any special ability to know what is good for me in the long run.
I, armed with knowledge and wisdom (or the lack of it) should be able to decide what I am going to do or not going to do with my own body and my life. As long as I am not actually going out and harming someone (let's not take this loosely and start assuming that medical insurance is harming people, because I pay into my insurance and thus have a right to it), I should be able to do what I want and enjoy.
As a side note, I should tell you that I do not smoke (my mother passed away in 2003 from cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking) and I drink rarely (a drink for new years and a few now and then during gatherings), so I speak not only from knowledge in my own life, but of the lives of those I love dearly.
Hope that this helps.
Buddhadan
the economy or company depends on money that people buy their products. MONEY!
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