The Surgeon general just said secondhand smoke CAN kill. Who agrees then that cigarettes should be illegal?
December 6th, 2009 Posted by: admin
I **** cigarettes, but I know they will always be legal because they make so much frickin money off of the stinky things.
Julie-I’m thinking back really hard, and no, I don’t think I have ever done anything INTENTIONALLY to hurt someone so bad that it could possibly kill them (or unintentionally for that matter). Does that make me perfect? If so, thanks!
And I understand people have the right to smoke, but when it begins to affect other people, the law needs to step in. Maybe not making them illegal, but restricting where people can smoke.
And you can’t outlaw food or alcohal or tampons or red meat or whatever else some of you are saying for this reason. The government can’t control what people do to their own body, but when it affects the wellbeing of other people they need to. I can’t control walking out of a building and having to walk through a cloud of smoke to get to the sidewalk.
By: fresh princess
Julie-I’m thinking back really hard, and no, I don’t think I have ever done anything INTENTIONALLY to hurt someone so bad that it could possibly kill them (or unintentionally for that matter). Does that make me perfect? If so, thanks!
And I understand people have the right to smoke, but when it begins to affect other people, the law needs to step in. Maybe not making them illegal, but restricting where people can smoke.
And you can’t outlaw food or alcohal or tampons or red meat or whatever else some of you are saying for this reason. The government can’t control what people do to their own body, but when it affects the wellbeing of other people they need to. I can’t control walking out of a building and having to walk through a cloud of smoke to get to the sidewalk.
By: fresh princess
Tags: Cloud Of Smoke, Control, Surgeon General
December 8th, 2009 at 11:57
They killed my father. Small cell lung cancer.
The government gave them away during WWII.
It really promoted them and caused a generation of addicted people.
However, you will create smugglers that are not taxed and increase the overloaded court system if you make them illegal. I think that taxation and insurance incentives may be a better way to discourage smoking. Fining smokers for smoking in public places has started and I am sure that more can be done.
I think that loosing the Tax revenues and making this industry go underground would not stop it but make battling the problem more costly. I could be wrong and offer this only as another viewpoint after talking with some Dutchmen about similar issues in their country.
Also, I do not think that Police will give much priority to laws against smoking cigerettes when they are already overloaded with meth addicts, etc. and understaffed. My cousin is a NARC.
December 9th, 2009 at 09:20
ME!
Cigarettes and alcohol are still legal because someone is getting kickbacks and campaign contributions to allow these poisons to remain on the open market, period!
The FDA is another criminal government organization!
December 10th, 2009 at 00:54
I think we should put them in school vending machines along with a picture of my grandmother and all the wonderful black stuff she blew out of her lungs before she died. Smoke it up folks! Die slow!
December 13th, 2009 at 02:24
OH OK MISS PERFECT AND YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING TO HURT ANY ONE HEH?
December 14th, 2009 at 04:09
I **** them too… prez bush would make them illegal but that would just make people **** him more i feel bad for him ..I think that we deserve to breath fresh air
December 15th, 2009 at 05:48
Where have you been??? The surgeon general has been saying that for 40 years. Its not hot off the press…..lol…..anyway, too much artificial sweetner can kill as well as red meats. So maybe we should outlaw steak and Diet Coke……jeez people……how stupid.
December 16th, 2009 at 18:11
I do not agree. It is all a matter of personal freedom and of personal responsibility. The government can deter people from doing things that are unhealthy by the use of taxes and tax breaks but the minute it starts outlawing everything because people are not responsible for their own actions than we end up with a babysitter, not a government. That way of thinking results in nothing less than a burning of the Bill of Rights.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:54
I disagree. Although smoking is bad for you, it is your choice to smoke and hang around smokers. It is a matter of free will. In my state, they banned indoor smoking, and it hasn’t helped anyone but the Indian reservations, for whom the law does not apply.
December 21st, 2009 at 16:01
As much as I agree, it just doesn’t seem possible. I mean people are killing themelves with a knife & fork (obesity) everyday and we can’t outlaw food. Same with beer & liquor.
December 22nd, 2009 at 22:24
smoke kills, cars kill, guns kill, tampons kill, george bush kills
do you want to make everything in this world that has the potential to kill illegal. the welcome back to the stone age.
oh wait a minute stones kill people too.
December 23rd, 2009 at 23:41
Blah Blah Blah….someone get me a cigarette…people like you annoy me! 2nd hand smoke can only kill you if your around it almost 24/7/365
December 26th, 2009 at 16:28
I don’t smoke. They should be legal.
This is the USA. It is supposed to be the land of the free and home of the brave.
I am an adult. It should be my choice. Cars kill. I have two. Many things are dangerous. That does not mean that adults shouldn’t have choices.
With the rights of adulthood, we expect both the privilege of options and the responsibilities that come with them.
December 27th, 2009 at 07:08
Did you know the exhaust from your car produces millions more carbon monoxide than cigarette smoke. there was a study during the 1994 or 96 olypics in atlanta where they didin’t allow anyone to use there cars for the duration of the olympics and found that respiratory illnesses as well as respiratory episodes dropped 97 percent. By simply driving your car you are affecting thousands who don’t want to breath in your exhaust verses the few that are affected by second hand smoke. By driving your car you are killing our children, I wonder what the sureon general has to say about that.
December 30th, 2009 at 09:57
People can choose to smoke, but smoking around kids, smoking while pregnant, should be illegal. Regardless of people doing things that hurt themselves- that’s fine… but when it affects others, innocent people, children, etc. it should be considered unlawful. There are a lot of people who do worse things- but, people, wake up!!! Oh, and get a mirror- it’s just NOT attractive to look over at you in traffic while you have a cigarette “a danglin’ out your mouth” … but it does go well with the yellowed fingernails and excess ****** wrinkles, etc. It’s all your gain, I guess.
January 1st, 2010 at 14:02
i think they should at least put large taxes on them and forbide smoking in ALL public areas. they should also forbide smoking in a private house if there are any children in it. and smoking should be forbiden if there is at least 1 person standing less then 5 meters away
January 1st, 2010 at 16:22
I **** cigarettes but I do not think they should be outlawed.
January 4th, 2010 at 10:53
They are already severly restricted and there is no real reason you have to go where they smoke. So what you really want is to make it illegal for everyone?
Next we can make cars illegal, and smog!
In that case that is your issue, not theirs.
And I am an ex smoker and I can’t stand the smell!!
Stay out of bars, though some are going to non-smoking!
January 5th, 2010 at 00:25
I think they should be illegal, and switch those poor wretched, addicted people over to THC. I have seen so many older people with their oxygen tanks, on wheels, carry packs, and yes, inhalers, so they could get the room for the big inhale of a cigarette. It is a rank job to care for someone dying of tobacco abuse. You don’t even want to imagine it.
I have yet to view the death of someone who has smoked Pot on a regular basis. Everything leads to drugs. Mainly, Pharmaceutical companies.
January 6th, 2010 at 13:06
Already see a range of answers posted both for and against the concept and both are valid and that’s what makes it rather tricky. No one can argue the fact that cigarettes causes health problems, heck even smokes agree on that.
But once you start the slippery slope of making common items illegal its becomes a mind field of right and wrong. If some could go into asthmatic shock because they are allergic to a perfume should all perfumes be banned? Food allergies can actually kill, should all those items be stricken from the diet of everyday Americans? Don’t even get started with alcohol!
So let’s pretend that everything that causes harm is illegal, well you shouldn’t be reading this since that monitor is harming your eyes…
January 9th, 2010 at 14:55
I think people should be able to smoke. I don’t think that non-smokers should have to breath in the smoke from smokers. Second hand smoke does kill. When was the last time you saw anyone die because they sat next to someone who drank for years? Or saw someone die because they were sitting next to someone eating fatty foods? Never. But people have died because of second hand smoke. You can smoke if you want to, but I have as much right as you do to breath clean air.
January 12th, 2010 at 22:17
At least make public smoking illegal. I went to casino this weekend & realized once again that smokers never hold cigarette in front of them so they can enjoy the smoke. They hold it to the side where those of us with clean lungs get smoke in our faces. I have relatives that smoke, but I choose not to smoke & would like to go in public places & not smoke your cigarette. I live in NC - the heart of tobbaco country & my grandfather had a huge tobbacco farm , but it does not make it right. This does not even bring up the issue of insurance cost from self inflicted cancer by smoking. Smokers - don’t get your panties in a knot, I am entitlted to my opinion too!
January 14th, 2010 at 05:59
I actually think adults should be able to smoke, eat, drink anything they chose. These type of products should be regulated like alcohol but available to those who want it.
I don’t think society should be responsible for the repercussions such as recovery from alcohol or drugs.
Why should an elite few decide what we put into our bodies or how we treat our bodies, or how we wish to decorate our bodies.
January 16th, 2010 at 03:06
Cars kill. Swimming pools kill. Donuts kill.
Why must you control others lives? Who died and made you god?
Save yourself and leave the rest of us the fkk alone, thank you.
January 19th, 2010 at 03:17
the surgeon general is nuts
50% of people develope cancer
50% of smokers develope cancer
SO smoking causes cancer.WRONG
SMOKEING MAY TRIGGER A REACTION TO CANCER THAT WOULD OF DEVELOPED REGARDLESS.
smoking to much like drinking to much is harmfull to your health like being over weight .
IF they proved out-right cancer is caused by smoking it would be banned .90 year old men and women are walking around with a cigerette in there hands so where is the hard evidence linking smoking to death other then some doctores beleif that it contributed to CONTRIBUTED TO death all things contribute to your death.
SO does your risk of being killed in by a plane increase substantualy if you fly not realy you have a .023% chance if you fly and a .005% chance if you do not.SO it is possible that flying increases your risk but not flying does not make it go away.
GET a grip on statistics and what they are used for its a sales pitch with numbers please do not buy into it and all the rehetoric surrounding second hand smoke it smells bad is all and no link is established in fact to say second hand smoke causes anything but smelly clothes and hair sticks to walls in bars but mostly darkens greasey walls in diners.
January 22nd, 2010 at 09:06
i **** cigarettes too, but i don’t **** smokers. yes i know 2ND hand smoke kills. my question is why do non smoking people have to breath in other peoples poison, just cause they wanna kill themselves doesn’t mean we do to. what they are doing is dangerous to the public people, they should only be allowed to smoke at home. i wasn’t dumb enough to ever smoke and i never will. know what really gets me is people who smoke and they have children, they fill their homes and cars with their nasty smoke with their kids breathing in their poison, their killing their own children.
January 23rd, 2010 at 12:37
Yep just as soon as they make alcohol illegal!!!!
January 24th, 2010 at 10:26
millions of people smoke, they will never be illegal cause there is a demand for them. driving (and many other things) causes pollution so i guess we should outlaw those too.