Smoking should not be banned.

Thank you con. Other than your argument that second hand smoking causes harm to others and that the payment of cigarettes takes money away money that could be spent on something else you haven't supplied me with any arguments that justify forcing other people to abide by what you 'think' is morally right. I will respond to each of your atguments with logic and sources will come in later. "It's a drug that makes you feel good but in the end the feeling is just an illusion." Interesting, so you are claiming the good feeling from smoking is an illusion? Illusion - "A thing that is or is likely to be wrongly percieved or interpreted by the senses."[1] So you are claiming the feeling from smoking is being wrongly interpreted by the body, I don't think so, you are experiencing the chemicals in the cigarette such as dopamine [2] that helps control the brains pleasure centre, this is no illusion, it is physically happening to the body. Also, as I've said before people are aware of the risks, its not your place to determine what they should or should not do about their bodies. "Smokers have bad breath" Is this really a reason to ban smoking, that is poor. "Smokers skin looks unhealthy" So now we are banning things because they are making people look unhealthy, guess what fast food makes people look unhealthy when they become obese. "Smokers have brittle hair.....a yellow smile reveals a smoker......smokers also get yellow nails." Really? Perhaps we should ban these as well then. www.everydayhealth.com/hair-loss-pictures/surprising-things-that-cause-hair-loss-0209.aspx "Its really a myth that smoking calms you down." Well I guess pretty much every smoker I have spoken to is lying then and also: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423193946.htm "Smoking causes others to suffer as well" www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/12/19/second_hand_smoke_proven_harmless_again news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2008/07/01/scientific-evidence-shows-secondhand-smoke-no-danger As for asthma, the fact that second hand smoke can trigger attacks is not reason enough to justify banning cigarettes overall, people should be more wildly educated about these facts, this is the way to really solve problems not just banning everything. "Not to mention how many kids smoke underage" So your way of solving this is by banning smoking, you know how these kids get their cigarettes? Illegaly. So banning them probably wont solve that problem. Also it should be down to the parents and failing that, the education to educate kids of the risks. Take it from me, its not difficult for kids, yes kids, to get hold of marijuana and alcohol. blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-teens-to-buy-marijuana-than-beer/ This is another argument that shows that banning wouldn't be effective. Anyways, my arguments are largly summed up in my rebuttals below. But I digress the reasons you gave wrre largly not plausible reasons to ban it. A decent example would be banning video games. Video games, like smoking give tue participant pleasure. Video games, like smoking are very addictive. Video games, like smoking can have negative health effects if you become addicted. Now I ask you this, should we ban video games? Should we ban caffiene? Unlike the fast food example these are similar circumstantialy to smoking. Over to you con.