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Subject: Cigarettes, Should They Be Banned?

Flood's mentality:

Ban cigarettes, they're dangerous!
Don't ban guns, they're our Constitutional right!

Herp derp.

  • 11.28.2012 3:52 AM PDT

Posted by: Gen Petitt
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Posted by: CIint Beastwood
Flood's mentality:

Ban cigarettes, they're dangerous!
Don't ban guns, they're our Constitutional right!

Herp derp.

Hey, I need to defend myself if the Commies come and attack us.

  • 11.28.2012 3:58 AM PDT

Posted by: THElizzard01

Posted by: CIint Beastwood
Flood's mentality:

Ban cigarettes, they're dangerous!
Don't ban guns, they're our Constitutional right!

Herp derp.

Hey, I need to defend myself if the Commies come and attack us.

We are the commies if we ban cigarettes.

  • 11.28.2012 3:59 AM PDT

MCz

Don't ban the cigarettes, let nature take it's course and eliminate the people with a slow and horrible death, in a few years they will ban themselves

  • 11.28.2012 4:43 AM PDT

MCz


Posted by: crispychicken49

Posted by: l Wersonian l

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
No, it shouldn't matter what an adult wants to put into their own body.

By this logic, should marijuana, cocaine and all the bunch be legal?


Yes. More so the first than the others.


I don't understand why drugs are illegal, if somebody wants to kill himself by using drugs then let them, you can't ban jumping from a roof or a bridge, it is their problem. If you ban drugs you could go ahead and ban all of them: Coke, sugar, salt, chocolate, coffee etc.

  • 11.28.2012 4:46 AM PDT

hmm

Lol no. Who cares what someone else inhales into their body, besides it would piss a lot of people off if that actually happened.

  • 11.28.2012 4:50 AM PDT

As a non smoker I don't care but If I were to say I'd say keep them I don't mind them being around.

  • 11.28.2012 5:03 AM PDT

Gather around the campfire, once it goes out, it's out for good.

I don't think we should have the responsibility of protecting people from themselves.

  • 11.28.2012 5:08 AM PDT

Posted by: eggsalad
I don't think we should have the responsibility of protecting people from themselves.
You don't think people should be stopped from injuring themselves, possibly fatally?

  • 11.28.2012 5:19 AM PDT

Morally yes, but economically no.

  • 11.28.2012 5:21 AM PDT

Posted by: Zantaniann
Morally yes, but economically no.

You think smoking cigarettes is morally incorrect?

lol

  • 11.28.2012 5:24 AM PDT

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Even as a smoker, I think that they should be regulated a lot more than they currently are. It will take steps like banning in public places, bars, etc and farther than that for the public to start changing their perception towards them.

  • 11.28.2012 5:25 AM PDT
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I've always thought that the government shouldn't prevent you from doing anything that doesn't harm some unwilling victim, but that's it. If you want to do something that harms only you, that's your business. That's kind of how alcohol is treated. Drinking it's fine, but getting drunk and doing something stupid and dangerous to other people is illegal.

That does make smoking in public a trickier issue, since your secondhand smoke is bad for other people who aren't willingly taking it in, so I understand the push for smoking bans in public places. I guess the flip side of that is, if people don't want to be around smoke, they can always patronize businesses that don't allow it.

The other issue I can see is for people who live in a place where the government provides health care. People smoking may have some impact on the amount of taxes you pay, so you'd have an interest in stopping it since it might cause you some financial harm. I have no clue how much or how little of an impact that would have, and I'm sure it varies from place to place. However, in that case, I think the appropriate way to handle that is to study how much of an increase in expense is caused by smokers and tax cigarettes accordingly, which makes the smoker pay for their choice to smoke rather than everyone else.

  • 11.28.2012 5:27 AM PDT
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Yes, cigarettes destroy lives and ruin careers. I have an uncle who smoked a pack of cigarettes every day for a month, just one month, and it gave him cancer and he died within three weeks.

  • 11.28.2012 5:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: Methew
Can you give me a reason why people should be allowed to poison themselves and others aside from "it's their choice?" We stop people from jumping off bridges to kill themselves even though they say they want to. Yet when they do it slower it's okay?
Where do you people keep getting the idea that cigarettes are "slow suicide"?

It increases risk for cancer and other ailments; they're not a foregone conclusion.

  • 11.28.2012 5:33 AM PDT

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eCigs, although not 100% good for you (it's never good to inhale anything), seem to be a much safer and cheaper alternative. People can still get their nic fix without having lungs full of cancer, smoke and tar. Of course, as long as Big Tobacco is making money, there will always be cigarettes.

  • 11.28.2012 6:04 AM PDT


Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: eggsalad
I don't think we should have the responsibility of protecting people from themselves.
You don't think people should be stopped from injuring themselves, possibly fatally?


Cigarettes increase your risk for many problems, but they aren't instant death sticks.

If I see a guy sticking his hand in a running lawn mower, I'm going to stop him. If he does, he will definitely injure himself. But smoking is different, because it only increases the risk of illness. It doesn't make illness certain.

  • 11.28.2012 6:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: l Wersonian l

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
No, it shouldn't matter what an adult wants to put into their own body.

By this logic, should marijuana, cocaine and all the bunch be legal?


I think so, especially marijuana

  • 11.28.2012 6:29 AM PDT

They should NOT be banned. Absolutely not.

  • 11.28.2012 6:52 AM PDT

Banning something as commonly used with as many addicts as cigarettes will simply open up another massive black market, making the already prevalent gangs more powerful.

  • 11.28.2012 6:54 AM PDT

It's a grey area for me but I'm leaning towards yes. I mean it's their right to inhale smoke that destroys their lungs. I want them banned so they won't harm anyone.

  • 11.28.2012 7:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: l Wersonian l

Posted by: TW InKoGnIto
No, it shouldn't matter what an adult wants to put into their own body.

By this logic, should marijuana, cocaine and all the bunch be legal?


Those drugs mentally impair human beings, cigarettes do not...

Regardless, I'm not a smoker, so I could care less if they ban it.

It's disgusting.

  • 11.28.2012 7:05 AM PDT

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  • 11.28.2012 7:12 AM PDT

Posted by: SilentA98
Those drugs mentally impair human beings, cigarettes do not..
Yes they do.

  • 11.28.2012 7:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: SilentA98
Regardless, I'm not a smoker, so I could care less if they ban it.

It's disgusting.
First they came for the smokers, and I said nothing because I wasn't a smoker. Then they came for the drinkers, and I said nothing because I didn't drink alcohol. Then they came for the things I enjoyed, but by then there was nobody else to say anything.

  • 11.28.2012 7:19 AM PDT