Do you think smoking cigerettes should be illegal ?
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In my city, in the past 48 hours, two people have been killed by drunk drivers. One a 16 year old boy and the other a grandfather. Also in the past 48 hours in my city, a drunk man walked up to a line of cars sitting at a stop light, pulled out a gun and shot one of the men in the head that was sitting at the stop light in his car.
Keep in mind that as you buy cigarettes, you're really doing a great service to your country. Taxes on tobacco products pay for the wars around the world.
Tobacco products require a complex manufacturing line, millions spent on R&D, marketing, lawsuits, etc... Whereas something like spinach, or marijuana, grows freely throughout the world, can easily be harvested at little to no cost and is ready to eat off the shelf so to speak.
Ask yourself this, why is marijuana illegal instead of cigarettes? or at least could someone tell me? Something to remember is, tobacco kills around 500,000 Americans every year, thats 1 in 5 deaths. Can anybody tell me how many people die from marijuana? that is a honest question, I'm curious to know. I read an article on the web that it's like 50 - 90k deaths worldwide. Can anybody validate this?
I would like to see tobacco products prohibited. I think God looks down at our sorry excuse of a civilization and cries, all we do is make money from the suffering of millions.
God bless you and your country
Tobacco products require a complex manufacturing line, millions spent on R&D, marketing, lawsuits, etc... Whereas something like spinach, or marijuana, grows freely throughout the world, can easily be harvested at little to no cost and is ready to eat off the shelf so to speak.
Ask yourself this, why is marijuana illegal instead of cigarettes? or at least could someone tell me? Something to remember is, tobacco kills around 500,000 Americans every year, thats 1 in 5 deaths. Can anybody tell me how many people die from marijuana? that is a honest question, I'm curious to know. I read an article on the web that it's like 50 - 90k deaths worldwide. Can anybody validate this?
I would like to see tobacco products prohibited. I think God looks down at our sorry excuse of a civilization and cries, all we do is make money from the suffering of millions.
God bless you and your country
just one more thing, as soon as you start making substances illegal, it creates an underground economy for really bad people to make money from, not that tobacco execs are bad enough. Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's gave Al Capone the opportunity to make money. But today we have drug dealers, too many of them. How do we get rid of this problem??
God bless
God bless
Well, the bible approves (and in some cases even promotes!) the drinking of alchohol (within moderation, of course), so...
Anyway, if your distaste for human usage of alcohol is based on the fact that too much of it kills your brain cells, you might not watch TV, use a computer, etc. A lot of things we do on a daily basis actually have a part in killing brain cells too.
Anyway, if your distaste for human usage of alcohol is based on the fact that too much of it kills your brain cells, you might not watch TV, use a computer, etc. A lot of things we do on a daily basis actually have a part in killing brain cells too.
Not with average TV watching, no, but if you watch it long enough it can actually kill them.
Anyway, I agree with you. I've tipped a couple glasses while cooking with alchohol before, I don't have a problem with it, but it is definitely more accepted than other things.
But, if we look at it in a broader aspect, less harmful things than alchohol are treated like the sin of humanity, while alchohol and cigarettes are perfectly acceptable.
Anyway, I agree with you. I've tipped a couple glasses while cooking with alchohol before, I don't have a problem with it, but it is definitely more accepted than other things.
But, if we look at it in a broader aspect, less harmful things than alchohol are treated like the sin of humanity, while alchohol and cigarettes are perfectly acceptable.