Should the government stop the making of cigerettes?

It’s the tobacco lobbyists and big tobacco corporations padding the bank accounts of our Senators and Representatives in Washington purer and simple. It’s the same reason our prescriptions in the U.S. cost so much. The best law this country could pass would be to outlaw all lobbyists. But our congress would have to do that but that would be like cutting off their noses to spite their face. The fox is guarding the chicken house!

Ya gotta start at the bottom with the tobacco farmers because that is how cigarettes come about. Do you know how long all this would drag through the legal system if all of a sudden tobacco farmers were told that they could no longer do the work that had been in their families for generation after generation?

Personally, I do not smoke but I can not see smoking being outlawed or banned anytime in the near future or at least in my lifetime.

Gee could you see a law being passed that if a cop pulls you over for a traffic infraction and then sees a lit cigarette, handcuffs ya and carts ya off to jail? Yeah that would be something to see :))) There would not be enough time in the Nightly News to report all the day’s arrests…

we cant control people. and if we could, then we should be more worried about fast food and junk food. though cigs are still bad for you health fast food is worse. that can cause high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cardio vascular disease, obesity and depression.

the other thing that makes fast food so dangerous is eating is a need. you cant just quit eating where as you can quit smoking. i think that people can smoke if they want. once someone steps in and say “no more smoking”, thats when the rebellion starts. just like the 18th amendment in 1920. and yes, if someone is smoking around you, it does affect you. and if someone is eating fast food around it doesnt, unless you eat it too. but you dont have to be around people that smoke. which is why i agree with the law that prohibits smoking inside buildings.

The government collect alot of taxes from smoking towards the countries budget and it far outways the cost of smoking induced medical care in the UK. And i agree with the above, fast food is another cause of self induced ill health. TV and computer games cause people to sit around and be unheathy too. Then there’s pollution, litter dropping, industrial waste, car exhaust fumes. It would be nice to live in a world where things were better. I wish tobacco had never been discovered… Yes i’m a smoker with no will power, much to my shame.

Gov’t depends on the heavy taxes from this revenue source.