(May 5, 2015 at 10:13 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(May 4, 2015 at 7:59 pm)IATIA Wrote: I am a smoker and it is hard to quit. Real hard. Of all the illegal drugs in this country, tobacco should be at the top of the list, but the tobacco companies are not going to have that. Simply, all the Feds have to do is make it illegal for anyone not over 18 today, right now, to ever purchase tobacco. That does not help the present smokers, but it will eliminate new ones.
That won't stop underage people from smoking, just like limiting purchase capacity doesn't stop underage kids from drinking.
True, but there would be a deadline on the production of tobacco. There would be fewer and fewer smokers in the end with virtually no recourse but to cold turkey or try 'black market' cigs. Tobacco has the same issues marijuana does in that it is bulky and stinky which makes it difficult to smuggle. If I were so inclined, I could get two keys of smak or coke across the border so much easier and make so much more than a truck load of grass. There would be little motivation or demand for illegal tobacco when other 'cool' and 'better' drugs are more available and affordable.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
