Norik
[14] Master
I know the answer to this is most likely down to two things - Money from tax which funds and because it is so widespread and accepted all over the globe.
However, smoking should be a class A drug!
Smoking has a direct influence in the number or deaths caused by cancers due to the carcinogens in cigarette,which source [1] also proves. Deaths in males cased by lung cancer increased from 10 per 100,000 to 185 or so per 180,000 within 60 years, which is in pattern with the cigarette consumption per person per year [Consumption]. This consumption was at 4000 cigarettes per person per year. However research and statistics show us that the average smoker smokes about a pack per day. As a pack is often 20 cigarettes that means (20 * 365) = 7300 cigarettes are smoked by the average smoker every year. This is 1.75 times more than the peak of the graph in source [1] at about 4200 per year.
There is a 20 year lag in the graph between the increase in smokers and the increase in deaths caused by lung cancer.
So, the government of not just the UK or USA, but every god damned nation has statistics every where that prove the effects of smoking not only effect those who smoke but those around them too.
Governments probably make a lot of money from cigarette tax. They claim they need the money for the NHS and similar institutions but the only reason they need it is to treat the very smokers whose tax came from the >drugs< that are killing them. So if nobody smoked we wouldn't need so much money in the system anyway.
So why isn't the governement doing something about it?. If a 16 year old with little resources apart from basic statistics, some intelligence and common sense can come to this resolution how on earth can a government not work it out.
Tobacco (and most definitely alcohol too) would be class A drugs if they were introduced now, so why can it not be removed completely. It has an immediate short term effect which is critical to the body. It has a long term effect which is critical to the body. It is an addictive substance. It causes harm to those other than those taking it. What idiot of a stupid government cannot work it out and do something about it!
What can be done to make it illegal? Quality of life, health, wealth and general; well being will be improved dramatically if smoking was illegal, however why isn't the government making it illegal? Or to avoid a situation like the 20's prohibition, Why isn't it totally banned worldwide?
What is everyone's views and opinions on this and what do you think can be done?
Source-
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...king_lung_cancer_correlation_from_NIH.svg.png
However, smoking should be a class A drug!
Smoking has a direct influence in the number or deaths caused by cancers due to the carcinogens in cigarette,which source [1] also proves. Deaths in males cased by lung cancer increased from 10 per 100,000 to 185 or so per 180,000 within 60 years, which is in pattern with the cigarette consumption per person per year [Consumption]. This consumption was at 4000 cigarettes per person per year. However research and statistics show us that the average smoker smokes about a pack per day. As a pack is often 20 cigarettes that means (20 * 365) = 7300 cigarettes are smoked by the average smoker every year. This is 1.75 times more than the peak of the graph in source [1] at about 4200 per year.
There is a 20 year lag in the graph between the increase in smokers and the increase in deaths caused by lung cancer.
So, the government of not just the UK or USA, but every god damned nation has statistics every where that prove the effects of smoking not only effect those who smoke but those around them too.
Governments probably make a lot of money from cigarette tax. They claim they need the money for the NHS and similar institutions but the only reason they need it is to treat the very smokers whose tax came from the >drugs< that are killing them. So if nobody smoked we wouldn't need so much money in the system anyway.
So why isn't the governement doing something about it?. If a 16 year old with little resources apart from basic statistics, some intelligence and common sense can come to this resolution how on earth can a government not work it out.
Tobacco (and most definitely alcohol too) would be class A drugs if they were introduced now, so why can it not be removed completely. It has an immediate short term effect which is critical to the body. It has a long term effect which is critical to the body. It is an addictive substance. It causes harm to those other than those taking it. What idiot of a stupid government cannot work it out and do something about it!
What can be done to make it illegal? Quality of life, health, wealth and general; well being will be improved dramatically if smoking was illegal, however why isn't the government making it illegal? Or to avoid a situation like the 20's prohibition, Why isn't it totally banned worldwide?
What is everyone's views and opinions on this and what do you think can be done?
Source-
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...king_lung_cancer_correlation_from_NIH.svg.png