The production and consumption of cigarettes should be stopped

Thank you Schachdame, 1|"That this addiction risk is higher does not automatically means we need to illegalize them; it means people need to be more sensible for this risk and take it in account." When it comes to tobacco, it is not just the addiction risk; it is also the harm levels. A study by Professor David Nutt ranked drugs based on their physical damage, social harm and addictive properties combined and tobacco ranked 9th (alcohol ranked 5th but that is for a different debate) Among the list of 20 drugs, tobacco ranked highest in the kill count at over 100"000 deaths per year relating to tobacco. [http://welshcouncil.org.uk...] 2| "From a personal point I can honestly say that it's not true that you can only like cigarettes once you are addicted." Although I agree with your notion that taste is very subjective to the individuals own preferences, I would like to bring attention to 2 studies that showed alterations own taste buds in smokers. The study by Redington K. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...] and Pavlos P. [http://www.sciencedaily.com...] both showed the effects of smoking on people"s ability to taste. Therefore there is a chance that the bitter taste of cigarettes disappears not because the smoker begins to enjoy it, but because the smoke has damaged the taste buds to a certain extent. 3| "Just because something can be economically abolished, because it's not of actual benefit or value it does not mean it should be." I totally agree with this sentence and to an extent when you say Decoration and Fashion is usually just environmental-harming rubbish but then again, there are now many regulations (pushed by PETA probably) that limit fashion companies [http://www.cbc.ca...] (but again, this is a whole other debate). I also believe that if that product itself is killing over 100"000 people a year, then there is definitely some merit in looking at a revision of its legality. 4|"An adult has every right to smoke as much in privet as they want" True. An adult has every right to make the decision they make even if it hurts them. Then why aren"t other drugs illegal. Why are tobacco and alcohol legal while it is higher above on the danger list [from argument 1] than 10 other illegal drugs? Why not make all of them legal? Doesn"t every adult have the right to inject as much heroine as they want? Don"t they have every right to sniff as much cocaine as they want? Why not? 5| "Especially people who consider smoking as part of their cultural inheritance" Someone"s cultural tradition is not sufficient reason to legalize something. Say there are people of the Sambian tribe, they have a tradition in their culture where a boy turning into a man is put through what would be considered violent actions on himself and also to others [http://lrivera0327.tripod.com...]. Do we let this kind of violence happen because it is part of their tradition and they do it to themselves? 6| Just to add to the "one"s own choice" argument: In 2011, cigarette companies spent $8.37 billion on marketing in the US alone. That is about $23 million per day! When you take that into account, is it really free choice or is there some kind of manipulation of the mind at work that keeps people thinking that smoking is "cool" and "traditional"? [http://www.cdc.gov...+(CDC+-+Smoking+and+Tobacco+Use+-+Main+Feed)]