If we also ban advertising tobacco products, ad agencies and advertising media will lose revenue. These companies will also lay off workers. More Americans will be thrown out of work. Laid off workers soak up tax dollars instead of paying taxes. We Americans must someday learn to lose our blind faith in the criminal justice system.
Criminal laws can provide a very effective way of removing dangerous human beings from society.
But criminal laws have proven themselves to be one of the least efficient ways of correcting societal behavior. People continue murdering other people - in spite of the law making it a capital offense to do so. The law against murder has never stopped murder - it simply give us a means to take the killer out of circulation. A law against smoking will not stop it. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the past and try another round of prohibition.