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Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

Illegalising tobacco wouldn't stop the use of it, just like marijuana. marijuana is banned, still it's really widely used. It will cause more bad than good if we prohibit tobacco. all it will do is cause more crime (e.g criminal organisations like mafias).The prohibition of alcohol in the US 1920-1933 was a complete failure. It will just be the same, but a lot worse.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

smoking is one of the number 1 killers in the world. it not only kills the person smoking, but the people around it. Smoking gives you cancer and other health problems. once you see someone die from smoking what makes you continue to smoke. it doesn't make sense.smoking should be banned in all public places to reduce the number of people killed each year. no body wants to be eating while someone is smoking right behind them.the government should make smoking illegal and take responsibility of the fact that they are contributing to the deaths.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

perhaps thay should just ban nicotine! that is the main physically addicting substance in cigarettes. then it would be like smoking pure tobacco. less people would then use it because its only purpose would be to make you stink and poison you. does anyone have a problem with this solution?
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Should cigarettes be illegal? Yes, cigarettes should be illegal. They would be illegal except for the fact that the government, state and federal, makes so much money off taxing them. Any other substance, plant, etc., that causes as much physical harm as tobacco does not, and will not, get FDA approval. Imagine, if you will, if tobacco products were just discovered today and the growers wanted to get approval to market it. There is no way that would happen. Tobacco has no redeeming qualities, at least none that I am aware of. So I say that cigarettes should be illegal. Cigarettes should be illegal because they the effects of smoking are dangerous. They take 443,000 lives of people every year in United States, alone. Then over the whole world, there are over millions of deaths in a year. Many states and restaurants have already started to try to control the issue. Some states have a law that says people can only smoke outdoors and many restaurants have special seating areas for smokers. While this does help it doesn't eliminate the problem completely. Also smoking also leads to alcohol use. It leads to it because both are intoxicants which are harmful to life and your body. Then alcohol use leads to many accidents and deaths. Also, cigarettes should be illegal because there are many theories and speculation about using cigarettes. The industry of tobacco is not doing well, because there are many other companies that worked hard to beat this company. For example, there is a company that many electronic cigarettes. You blow in the cigarette and then smoke comes out. There is also another one that is a candy cigarette. It has a shape of it but instead of smoke, sugar that you can eat comes out. Also, there is a new injection that is still being tested in labs that clean out your lungs. My source here is healthcare magazines. Also, there are many foreign countries problems along with the cigarettes. For example, the country who import the cigarettes to us, may add a certain deadly chemical that is very harmful to the body. Cigarettes should be illegal because they are a grave public hazard. There are many health care risks with smoking. Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances. When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins. As a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt. The products that are most damaging are: tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer) nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). The damage caused by smoking is influenced by: the number of cigarettes smoked, whether the cigarette has a filter how the tobacco has been prepared. Smoking is also a delivery system for toxic chemicals and carcinogens. The nicotine in cigarettes is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE, and mostly can’t be unavoidable.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Well I think tobacco should be banned from public stores & that all the tobacco crops should be replaced with food crops.It shouldn't be illegal for anyone to use because that would create alot of problems.It's stupid that liberals want to ban guns because people have been killed by them but they support smoking which has killed alot more people than guns.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Not true, are you forgetting about wars? We don't use sticks now do we. We use guns. Tobacco has not killed nearly as many people as guns have all in all. Murder and gun incidents are at just a couple thousand a year in the USA while tobacco is nearly to a million just in the US.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

Actually, tobacco has killed more people than all of the american wars combined. PWNED
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

I don't think the liberals support smoking, more or less the CHOICE to smoke. People who decide to take up smoking know full well what they're going to be doing to themselves. They're reminded constantly every day by their friends and their family and people they don't even know. Their habit is banned from restaurants and public forums in most states.These people KNOW what they're doing to themselves. As long as there's a market for tobacco, there's going to be someone selling it.I think instead of banning tobacco we should raise the price per carton and put higher restrictions on it. We should enforce a more blatant warning logo. We should make it a crime to smoke in the presence of a child. Ban nicotine, you know, all of that jazz.Why should the guy who smokes three packs a day ruin it for the guy who has the occasional cigarette(once or twice a week) when he drinks?
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

I don't have much to support me, but I really disagree with any type of alcohol, drug, or otherwise smoking use. So I think it would be great to have it banned, though the crime rate would go up, and those who are already addicted to it right NOW (is tobacco addictive...?) would have difficulty with this new law.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Of course it should it kills millions of people a year! But that will never happen. If the Government tries to ban tobacco people will rebel and smoke anyways, just like when they tried to ban alcohol.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

should be BANNED!!!! yeaaait hurts our earth and your lungs
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

My father smokes, and I hate it. I really wish he would stop, but he won't, no matter how many of his cigarette tins I bury, or how much of his tobscco I replace with tea leaves. If only the government wasn't so greedy for tax money, and it was banned.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

i think tobacco should be banned because many people are losing their lives with health problems mostly cancer and the one thing that comes in my mind when people say tobacco is, BANNED TOBACCO MEANS BANNED CANCER!!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Yes because it causes cancer , c,o,p,d and other deadly illnesses & it gives asthma to children who don't smoke
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

because if you think about it second hand smoke is a big deal and what if some parents dont want there kids exposed to it!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

should tobacco be banned in public places? i would like to know.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Tobacco should be banned because it is very deadly. It can cause lung cancer. Another reason tobacco should be banned is because if you smoke around kids it can be considered second hand smoke. If people REALLY want to mess up THEIR health then so be it! But drugs are causing MORE and MORE deaths. We are putting OUR life in danger for NO good reason.Someone out there MUST be guilty. PLUS, all the people that ARE chewing tobacco or using tobacco...You are killing YOUR own lungs! What did your parents teach you??? Anything in your pea sized mind?!?! I don't smoke but my grandfather did. He died last year because his lungs failed on him. The Next person can be the STUPID @@@ smoker that is reading this! STOP! QUIT! GET HELP! DO IT for AMERICA! I BELIEVE IN YOU! :)
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Yes it can kill like more than 1 million people has died over the past years.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

yes i think it should be banned because the people who smoke are risking there lives and there body
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Should all things that involve risk and bodily harm be banned?
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Side Effects of Smoking CigarettesEvery year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking - Smoking KILLS.One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels. This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs amputated.Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering. Emphysema is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke. Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers. Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack. Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease. In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking.Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndromeIf we get rid of smoking, it will be easier to breathe, we'll stop some polluting, hospital beds will be freed up because there are no longer people getting sick from the drug and everyone will save money...in a year enough to pay for a ski-doo or a used car!!!!!!!!! SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!!!!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

Tobacco products should never be banned because ultimately it is a person's choice. The government already makes enough choices for the general public. If the government banned tobacco, people would find any necessary means in buying, selling, and using tobacco products despite the ban. This is reminds me of the war on drugs. It would be prohibition all over again except tobacco.Tobacco was used as currency in the colonial period of 1612-1776, so even with a ban, tobacco will always have great value.What will happen with a ban on tobacco? A black Market similar to that of illegal drugs now.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Smoking kills people and it kills people who are inocent too. Second hand smoke is more dangerous than the actual cigarette in most cases. SMOKING KILLS!!!!!!!! IT KILLS THE PLANET, OTHERS, YOUR BODY, YOU, YOUR WALET, ETC!!!!!!THIS IS A MAJOR THING...IT SHOULD BE BANNED....WE CAN HELP THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE THE BAN BUT IT WILL COST LESS THAN TO HAVE TO HAVE FUNERALS AND MEDICAL BILLS FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

VERY TRUE SMOKING IS DEADLY WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO KILL ALL OR THOSE THINGS....YOUR WALET AND YOUR LIFE IS THE WORST...POLLUTING THE AIR IS BAD TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

they havent banned it because it is just making so much money
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

I understand the yes and the no parts of the question but I´m inclined with the yes part. Tobacco is worse than any non smockable drug. Tobacco causes various diceases to the user but to everyone that is around.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

It should be banned because it can kill people and also can kill other people and the Earth would be better if it was. Also, people have asthma.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

yep!! tobacco should be banned. all it has ever done is harmed everyone's health!!!! also it is very addictive. so course it should be banned!!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

I think that people should stop useing tobacco because its killing them and its giving people cancer and other diseases.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Yes beacuse Not only is it costing the consummer alot of money but also the government and tax payers want to pay to help sick children, education, help make the world a safer place not to help the druggies contuinue living for a mistake they new was going to cost them!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

tabaco should be illegal because it is a very addictive drug and kills over 5 million people a day wold wide it is a desgusting thing to do and personaly i will never whant to try them :* i have some familey members who are addicted to cigarettes and now have lung cancer and gag green on ther feet !!!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: no

I'd like to know your source for your first contention, because by my math only 14.400 people die every day...
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

smoking is bad badddddddd badddddddddddd baddddddddddd badddddddddd!!!:(
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

:::(:*:&:6:^:%^%:m my code for:I hate smoking it is bad!
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

i think tobacco should be banned because its causing so many people to die and get various types of cancer and its not right.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: no

I personally think it's the person's choice to do what they want as they are an independent adult. If they acquire the health issues it's their burden. "its not right" - did you think about the economy state we're in?
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

I think smoking tobacco (cigerettes, cigars and pipe tobacco) should be banned and not all tobacco products such as dips and chews. The reason for this is the health risk for second hand and third hand contact and the civil rights/liberties of the non users that it imposes on. Somone argued that people will still find a way around the ban and get there fix somehow so the gov. should get its cut... Well let them get there fix just in a smokless form and the gov. can still get its cut without it imposing on non users. But how much of the monies collected are being spent in healthcare for the problems it causes? I think its stupid that you have to be 18 in order to buy it to get the first hand or mainstream form of smoke but you can be an infant and get all the second and third hand or sidestream contact without your control and for the person that brought up the point about abortions killing more and so banning tobacco wouldnt be at the top of their list, well let me guess it should be banned because of the civil liberties and rights to life that it has before birth, well why should they disappear once they are born because they are going home to a household that smokes in the home and its exposed to second hand and third hand contact because it cant up and walk somewhere smoke free. So while you should have the right to harm yourself if you choose, i.e mouth, throat, neck cancer etc. You should not have the right to impose on the civil rights and liberties of those who are non users because of second and third hand contact.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Tobacco should be banned because the harm to others (many) outweigh the satisfaction of the user (few). The satisfaction of the user that comes from the addictive nature of nicotine and is an avoidable, artificial factor. Addiction causes withdrawal symptoms (pain) when not fed. Feeding the addiction alleviates this pain which would not exist if not addicted. The net gain equals zero. The only reason smokers like smoking is because they get hurt if they don’t. It is unethical to put people in such a position.Also, smoking and second hand smoke hurts society and individuals alike. With a rise in disease rate comes more medical care costs which, in my country, is paid from taxes and insurance paid for by other people. Also, a lower work efficiency (through disease and smoke breaks) can affect a nations economy. On the other hand, mortality rates increase causing a shorter life span what equals less costs. However, a tobacco ban limits the freedom of smokers to do as they please. Smoking on the other hands limits the freedom of non-smokers to live in a smoke free environment (disregarding other pollution focusing on one thing at a time) as well as the freedom to not pay for the self-caused harm of others.Problem is, how would you go about setting up such a law affection millions of people. Addicts would surely rebel against it as they will definitely experience withdrawal symptoms. Maybe distributing on prescription until the whole generation died out.In the end, a nice bonus would be that farmland used for tobacco can be used to grow much needed food to alleviate worldwide food shortages. What adversely can cause overpopulation as another problem.In my opinion keeping people from becoming addicted is the absolute goal rather than limiting current addicts. The choice to smoke is not always fully conscientious. Despite laws forbidding acquiring and use of tobacco, minors do smoke and get addicted before passing the age of consent affecting them throughout their lifetime. While the majority start at a young age with the idea of being cool, curiosity or succumbing under peer pressure, it is unlikely an adult would start whilst knowing the effects of smoking. As it is unlikely anyone would want to be dependent on something.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

The adverse health affects of drinking Drain-O greatly outweighs any satisfaction one may gain from drinking it, so by the same reasoning should we not also outlaw the consumption of every harmful substance?Isn't it up to the individual to decide whether to engage in a dangerous activity?
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

No, that’s not the reasoning. This argument focuses on the effect, not the act itself. There are more stakeholders than just the person performing the activity. It’s an utilitarian argument stating that the choice on the matter needs to benefit the majority. You can look at this dilemma from all sorts of moral and ethical perspectives. You state that the act itself is bad and laws should apply on all similar situations even if they cannot be compared. That is one way to look at it but it would make life pretty grim, unnecessarily complicated and unpractical.As for the decision of individuals to engage in dangerous activities. It is indeed their freedom to do so as long as they are capable to make that choice and harm no others (which is easily done). However, the governments that individuals are subjected to have the moral duty to keep its people out of harm’s way, as far as it is reasonably possible, through laws and regulations. It is up to governments how they apply those laws. And they will try to keep as many people as possible happy, which is pretty much an utilitarian approach. Likely the ones that bring the most cash.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: No

However, the governments that individuals are subjected to have the moral duty to keep its people out of harm’s wayNot from themselves it isn't.It’s an utilitarian argument stating that the choice on the matter needs to benefit the majority.Not when it infringes upon the rights of the minority. It is an inherently American Ideal that the government has no authority to limit or outlaw any action that does not cause undue harm to others.And they will try to keep as many people as possible happyDo you not accept the possibility that banning tobacco will make a lot of people unhappy, especially the smokers.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Smoking tobacco kills more than alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, murders, suicides, and fires combined. World-wide some 3 million people die from smoking each year, 1 every 10 seconds. Smokers are more than 20 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers, and smoking can lead to a host of other health problems, including emphysema and heart disease.One of the main responsibilities of any government is to ensure the safety of its population, that is why taking hard drugs and breaking the speed limit are also illegal. It would therefore be reasonable to ban smoking - an activity which kills millions of people each year.Smoking tobacco not only gives the smoker a high chance of an early grave it gives those around him/her the same chances due to second hand smoke. What does all of this lead to? An irresponsible government that lets Americans continue to poison ourselves and do nothing about it.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Because it can kill people at it has lots of cemecals in it like battery fluid and paint and toilet cleaner all that and nicotene and it can turn you lunhg black so all the People think that we souldent ban it well you are so thick to not !!!Thank you Littlemix123 xoxo
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

It really should cause this is for australis but 15,000 people die just from smoking
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

Smoking has been shown to be dangerous to health. Heart disease, bronchitis and lung cancer have all been linked. A further issue is that smoking costs governments millions of pounds because of the large number of people who need treatment in hospitals for smoking related problems. There is also concern today about passive smoking. Recent research has shown that non-smokers can suffer health problems if they spend long periods of time among people who do smoke.
Debate: Should tobacco be banned?
Side: yes

I'm smoking a cigarette as a type this and i don't see why its any of the governments damn business if i want to. If the government has to ban something they should try banning something that has a serious impact on people that don't partake in it, like drinking. Smoking will kill me someday, but if it doesn't life will kill me. I also think it's funny everyone is so concerned about secondhand smoke given the number of automobiles in the world. You put your lips around a cigarette and you're working to increase your chance of disease, stroke, cancer, etc... but if you put your lips around the tailpipe of my car your dead in 60 seconds. When I'm stuck in back-to-front traffic, stuck in a sea of thousands of cars spewing toxic gas all around me, I wonder why it is people are so keen to legislate against cigarettes and not automobiles. Oh, right, they don't like how it smells and cars are just so convenient.