Should Cigarette company executives be executed?

Topspin said:
and zero of the drug abuse deaths are from cannabis.
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Jeebus, people who smoke are silly on this. It clearly impairs the ability to drive and make good choices. This is like hearing a teenager explain to you in their most reasonable voice that they are a BETTER driver when they drive drunk. Pretending that people never ever get harmed by something that might be linked to cannabis is just funny.

While I'm all for legalization, I'm not for deluding myself about it in order to convince me...
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Here's a pretty good source.

http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag/osh.htm

Here's an interesting thought. Health Care reform could possibly be paid for by the prohibition of cigarettes. Even after the loss of tax revenue savings would in in the neighborhood of 200 billion dollars annually from medical costs related to smoking and lost productivity. It makes you winder how much of the nearly 100 billion in the medical cost caused by cigarette smoking annually do we and our employers pay through our health insurance premiums? I would imagine most of it. I really makes you wonder what an impact such a prohibition would have?

BTW, Obesity is #2 preventable cause of death, that and tobacco cause more preventable deaths then all other recorded causes combined.
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Thanks, that was a very informative site.

I would not support outright prohibition. It never works and ends up not only costing us in enforcement, but also tends to escalate criminal activity surrounding whatever is prohibited.

The CDC mentioned simply raising taxes on tobacco (again) and continuing to use the funds to educated the populace (among other things). I think this is a better approach, though you still run the danger of a black market developing if you raise them too high.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Here's an interesting graph. Look at drug abuse at the very end and compare that to cigarettes in terms of preventable deaths then think about how we put large #'s of people in prison for selling illicit drugs but we reward tobacco merchants with billions of dollars in profits. What's wrong with this picture?

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I just want to say, about Mott's graph, how come they are separating alcohol from drugs when the two are popularly regarded as one category?

Oh, and in answer to the question, your mom.
 
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