Tobacco Rights

I will now attack her case and put mine in the attacks. 1. RIGHTS My lovely opponent says that the government does not care about our health, that we are just here for well what? I would like to look at Hobbes social contract where as any government is establish for the purpose of protect the citizens from the selves and others harm. If the government didn't care about our health why have cops? To protect us. Why have these regulations on drugs and the FDA's approval. Why have all these commercials telling kids not to smoke on television? The D.A.R.E program in elementary school telling kids how bad drugs and that they shouldn't do them? Government funded rehabs, illegal drugs such as crack cocaine and others are illegal because they are deadly to your mental health and addictive. yes, the government has no interest protecting its people from health problems do they. My opponent also says the part about the big Mac and that the government would not regulate legal items, I ask why not, in bars after you have drank so much they cut you off, why couldn't a person ask 2 questions before handing them their big Mac like : Sir how many of these do you have a week? he says 30, Then I'm sorry I'm not allowed to sell you this sorry would you like something more health on the menu? The crisis is obesity. Itï¿½€™s the fastest-growing cause of disease and death in America. And itï¿½€™s completely preventable. Nearly two out of every three Americans are overweight or obese. One out of every eight deaths in America is caused by an illness directly related to overweight and obesity. Still this is off the real topic of tobacco, My opponent has been leaving out why tobacco isn't like Big Macs either. Tobacco is addictive , very addictive, its not like picking up a bag of chips and going omg I can stop man I need more man every five minutes. Nor does big mac's cause second hand smoke that effects everyone around you. 2.Health risk Again she's comparing fast food to smoking which as I have said earlier that tobacco is nothing like them yes both can have bad effect but fast food does not make you crave it for the rest of your life. Tell me which is harder smokers, to put down your sandwich or to throw away a good camel crush, plus does eating yourself to death effect others health? Second hand smoke kills others around you as well. "Now, many also worry about second-hand smoke which has led to smoking being banned in public areas and work places. This is justifiable as long as the proprietor is putting forward the regulations and not through the use of federal law. The US has property rights for this very reason ï¿½€" to protect the interests of the business owner. If they feel that smoking will harm their patrons, which will cause less of them to return, then they would rush to ban smoking. The point is, property rights are more than enough to regulate exposure to smoking." What about at home? guy smokes and with his two new little babies born 3 weeks ago letting them effect the children , government can't regulate that. Also if it is as you say a business man would lose money for having a non smoking sign so this makes them more inclined not to. ADDING MORE FACTS ABOUT CIGS 1.Sugar and cocoa are often added to cigarettes, a fact many diabetic smokers are unaware of.c 2.Urea, a chemical compound found in urine, is added to cigarettes for extra flavor 3.Women in the United States increasingly began smoking publicly in the 1920s when the cigarette was adopted by advertisers as a symbol of equality, rebellion, and womenï¿½€™s independence.k Currently, cigarette smoking kills an estimated 178,030 women in the United States annually.b 4.Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to deliver not only low birth weight babies but also highly aggressive children.j 5.A British survey found that nearly 99% of women did not know the link between smoking and cervical cancer.j 6.Within 20 minutes of quitting smoking, a personï¿½€™s blood pressure returns to normal. Within one year, the chance of suffering a heart attack decreases by half.i 7.Tobacco smoking, particularly cigarette smoking, is the single-most preventable cause of the death in the United States.i 8.Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average, which is roughly the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.i 3. TAXES To this whole statement id like to say that without people alive or citizens alive to pay taxes there would be less revenue since the stuff we sell them kills them. My case. Has anyone notice that it seems like cigerrete companies target kids?With names like Kauai Kolada, Caribbean Chill and Twista Lime, the products sound like refreshing carbonated beverages. But these are candy-flavored cigarettes and their manufacture and marketing very much look like they are targeting children. The fact is smoking has always effected children all smokers right now started before the legal age of 18. These so called regulations and in the long run having no tobacco at all will be beneficial to society in the long run.