Why do you think cigarettes are still legal? I know they bring in a lot of tax money, but shouldn't Americans health come first.
After all, they shut down an entire country for a year to try and prevent covid deaths. Meanwhile cigarettes kill as many people EVERY YEAR in the US as Covid did over the past year. Hmmmmm
Seems the US really cares about our health and all. Every single death from cigarettes is preventable. Let that sink in for a bit.
We shut down the country in an effort to control COVID. Whether it made a difference or not is hard to tell at this point.
How did this work out?
Nationwide Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The Eighteenth Amendment—which illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol—was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917. In 1919 the amendment was ratified by the three-quarters of the nation's states required to make it constitutional.
Here's how....Not well.
Prohibition, failing fully to enforce sobriety and costing billions, rapidly lost popular support in the early 1930s. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed and ratified, ending national Prohibition. After the repeal of the 18th Amendment, some states continued Prohibition by maintaining statewide temperance laws. Mississippi, the last dry state in the Union, ended Prohibition in 1966.
Read about it. Maybe you will learn something.
How Prohibition Put the ‘Organized’ in Organized CrimeKingpins like Al Capone were able to rake in up to $100 million each year thanks to the overwhelming business opportunity of illegal booze.
https://www.history.com/news/prohibition-organized-crime-al-caponeAlcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level. During the next several years, however, alcohol consumption increased sharply, to about 60-70 percent of its pre-prohibition level.
In the decades after Prohibition ended on Dec. 5, 1933, with the repeal of the 18th Amendment, consumption remained relatively subdued. ...
Today Americans drink on average about 2.3 gallons of pure alcohol a year, which is about 12 standard drinks a week, about the same amount they drank before Prohibition.
Making something illegal does end it. It just goes underground and becomes criminally more profitable.
Although cigarette smoking is responsible the greatest number of deaths. If smoking was illegal it would not stop people from smoking.
In the U.S. alone, around 40,000 people die each year in automobile accidents. Do you think driving motor vehicles should also be illegal?
An estimated 300,000 deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic in the U.S. Maybe food should be rationed and those foods which most contribute to obesity, such as anything high in carbs should be outlawed completely.
There are many illegal drugs and prescription drugs which are are illegally available without a prescription, for example ABS. In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. Prisons are filled with convicts whose crimes were drug related. Why not add to those numbers by making smoking illegal?
Come to think if it, not taking responsibility for one's own actions should be illegal. Do that and almost everyone would be locked up.
Let this sink in a bit.
