Will smoking be banned?

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  • synthomarsh
    synthomarsh Posts: 189 Member
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    No, and No

    does anyone remember prohibition? Unless America wants a new wave of orginized crime running liquor again alcohol is to intergrated into society.

    Same with cigarettes.... America is only around because of the money they first made with tobacco plants. it gave the colonies money which brought more settlers. There are too many big tobacco companies with their money in the politicians pockets for it to be out right banned but expect the tax on them to keep going up until they are so expensive you wont be able to afford to smoke daily.... they will try to phase them out that way not by making them outlawed. too many people make money off them just like gas for a country to go cold turkey.
  • ilovedeadlifts
    ilovedeadlifts Posts: 2,923 Member
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    I think its hilarious how so many Americans think that everything they don't like is 'communism' lol

    It's been a scare tactic for 60+ years and the right is still terribly misinformed about what it actually is.
    So anytime someone has a liberal idea thats new or progressive, they're a communist.
  • Brianna72994
    Brianna72994 Posts: 887
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    I doubt smoking will ever be illegal, although I wish it would! As a person with asthma, even being around cigarette smoke makes me sick.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,843 Member
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    I think its hilarious how so many Americans think that everything they don't like is 'communism' lol

    And I think it's hilarious that people are so blind to see what's actually happening in America. Government is too big and too much into an individual person's business. If you don't believe we're headed for a Socialist society then good luck to ya.
  • backpacker44
    backpacker44 Posts: 160 Member
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    Hi there

    This is just a question i am putting out there- do u think all smoking will be banned in the future and ciggerates will be illegal?

    I am a non smoker of four years and my husband and me always said when we stopped smoking- it will not be forever. Once our youngest- who is ten weeks now- turns 18 and leaves home (at 18 hopefully)..then we wll start smoking again. It may be long way off- we are looking at 2031, but its still something we both look fwd to.


    However......the world is changing. do you think come 2031 ciggerates and alcohol will be contraband? that the world will be non smoking, non drinking .....that those who engage in 'sinful acts' will be outcasted?

    do you think we will reach a stage where those who smoke will be incarcerated?

    do you think everyone will be eating healthy food, taking regular exercise and we will be in the 'ideal state' where there wont be room for outcasts who like to light up?

    no. Of course not. Do you think they will make picking your nose illegal as well?
    There are countries where chewing gum is illegal.
  • sunshineblue1
    sunshineblue1 Posts: 60 Member
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    Please read Alan Carrs Easyway to Stop Smoking, it costs next to nothing and it'll banish any thoughts of looking forward to smoking.

    As for whether it'll be banned? No way, there's money in tobacco and money in people trying to quit tobacco (unless you stick it to em and read the book!)

    Again, PLEASE get the book, trust me!

    but i liked smoking.....i never had any negative outcomes from it. I dont want to be manipulated into doing something which i dont think is wrong....
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
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    Please read Alan Carrs Easyway to Stop Smoking, it costs next to nothing and it'll banish any thoughts of looking forward to smoking.

    As for whether it'll be banned? No way, there's money in tobacco and money in people trying to quit tobacco (unless you stick it to em and read the book!)

    Again, PLEASE get the book, trust me!

    but i liked smoking.....i never had any negative outcomes from it. I dont want to be manipulated into doing something which i dont think is wrong....

    i never smoked when i was pregnant/breast feeding and i will never smoke as long as my kids are little......but at 18 i think they should be old enough to make their own choices and not judge others, including their parents, for the choices we make.

    :noway: :noway: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • sunshineblue1
    sunshineblue1 Posts: 60 Member
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    BECAUSE IT TASTES SO GOOD

    yup
  • sunshineblue1
    sunshineblue1 Posts: 60 Member
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    I have to ask (since I've been trying and trying to quit)... Why would you want to start back after not smoking for 18 years??


    its always easier to stop knowing that it is not forever.

    same with dieting i guess......its easier to stop eating ice cream, when i know that once i loose the weight, i can have some again.

    same concept
  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
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    I think its hilarious how so many Americans think that everything they don't like is 'communism' lol

    And I think it's hilarious that people are so blind to see what's actually happening in America. Government is too big and too much into an individual person's business. If you don't believe we're headed for a Socialist society then good luck to ya.

    "A socialist economic system would consist of a system of production and distribution organized to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit[5] driven by the accumulation of capital. Accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time in place of financial calculation.[6][7] Distribution would be based on the principle to each according to his contribution."

    What's so bad about that?

    I think Americans are so brain washed into thinking "capitalism is the be all and end all!" when it really doesn't profit the middle and lower classes, aka 99.9% of us.

    I work in academia. Capitalism is teh suckz.

    also no, and no.
  • Ramberta
    Ramberta Posts: 1,312 Member
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    no. the government makes entirely too much money off of the taxes. and big tobacco has their hands in the pockets of several politicians.

    it's a shame marijuana farmers don't have the money to own a few congressmen....

    Pot will never be legal for 2 reasons:

    a) As much as hippies cry out that it will "be good for the economy", it makes FAR more money as a criminalized substance than it ever would legal, even if they taxed the hell out of it

    b) Legalizing marijuana would admit that the "War on Drugs" was a failure... and the government can never admit failure.
  • Ramberta
    Ramberta Posts: 1,312 Member
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    I think its hilarious how so many Americans think that everything they don't like is 'communism' lol

    It's been a scare tactic for 60+ years and the right is still terribly misinformed about what it actually is.
    So anytime someone has a liberal idea thats new or progressive, they're a communist.

    QFT!

    But then again, I'm a goddamned socialist commie hippie. Or something. Because I actually have the nerve to want to help my fellow man, even if that means paying my hard-earned taxes (out of a minimum wage paycheck) to do so.
  • TylerJ76
    TylerJ76 Posts: 4,375 Member
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    I have to ask (since I've been trying and trying to quit)... Why would you want to start back after not smoking for 18 years??


    its always easier to stop knowing that it is not forever.

    same with dieting i guess......its easier to stop eating ice cream, when i know that once i loose the weight, i can have some again.

    same concept

    Your logic amazes me.

    You can eat ice cream while you're dieting. If you can't learn to do anything within reason, then you will just put the weight that you lost, back on.
  • Lisa1971
    Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
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    I doubt smoking will ever be illegal, although I wish it would! As a person with asthma, even being around cigarette smoke makes me sick.

    Agreed!
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
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    If you are going to go 18 years without, why would you even consider starting again then? It just kind of seems like setting yourself up for complete failuer.
  • cuterbee
    cuterbee Posts: 545
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    I think it's way more likely that marijuana will be legalized, actually. Prohibiting something you can grow in your backyard is kind of stupid*, in my opinion.


    *Edited to add: Many, if not most, politicians are, admittedly, fairly stupid.
  • kaylaandthestarcatcher
    kaylaandthestarcatcher Posts: 836
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    no. the government makes entirely too much money off of the taxes. and big tobacco has their hands in the pockets of several politicians.

    it's a shame marijuana farmers don't have the money to own a few congressmen....

    Pot will never be legal for 2 reasons:

    a) As much as hippies cry out that it will "be good for the economy", it makes FAR more money as a criminalized substance than it ever would legal, even if they taxed the hell out of it

    b) Legalizing marijuana would admit that the "War on Drugs" was a failure... and the government can never admit failure.

    But... it is legal in certain areas already.
  • Ramberta
    Ramberta Posts: 1,312 Member
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    no. the government makes entirely too much money off of the taxes. and big tobacco has their hands in the pockets of several politicians.

    it's a shame marijuana farmers don't have the money to own a few congressmen....

    Pot will never be legal for 2 reasons:

    a) As much as hippies cry out that it will "be good for the economy", it makes FAR more money as a criminalized substance than it ever would legal, even if they taxed the hell out of it

    b) Legalizing marijuana would admit that the "War on Drugs" was a failure... and the government can never admit failure.

    But... it is legal in certain areas already.

    At the State level, yes. But if it is taken to the Supreme Court and ruled unconstitutional (because the national laws still say it's illegal), it will be invalid. I'm talking about legalization on a national level.
  • tattygun
    tattygun Posts: 447 Member
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    Please read Alan Carrs Easyway to Stop Smoking, it costs next to nothing and it'll banish any thoughts of looking forward to smoking.

    As for whether it'll be banned? No way, there's money in tobacco and money in people trying to quit tobacco (unless you stick it to em and read the book!)

    Again, PLEASE get the book, trust me!

    but i liked smoking.....i never had any negative outcomes from it. I dont want to be manipulated into doing something which i dont think is wrong....

    You're manipulated now. The book tackles that manipulation. You've 18 years to undo any 'manipulation' it might do, so what have you to lose by reading it?
    I haven't gone out if my way to recommend it because there's any personal gain for me, I genuinely care and I find it truely tragic people are still in the trap of tobacco.

    I'll say it again, you've nothing to lose....please read the book.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
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    No, the tobacco lobbies and alchohol lobbies will see to that. Besides everybody is entitled to engage in any self-destructive behavior they wish. I am glad public smoking is banned, as in restaurants, though.
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