Debates about smoking and other similar things... Of course they should be banned. THEY ARE NEGATIVE TO HUMANS. They damage health, people waste money on them while they could use that money on actual USEFUL things. If you find you have more than enough money and you think that justifies buying shit like cigarettes then why not instead GIVE that money to someone who has too little or not enough?

Cigarettes and cigars should be banned because of the effects they do to the body. These effects don't apply just the user; smoke dissolves into the air, affecting more than just the smoker. Think of it as releasing Chlorine Gas into the air; the fumes will spread and harm many people.

Another problem is that Cigarettes have been known to start fires, so property can be damaged, not just people. They also cause people to lose about $1000 a year. In my opinion, cigarettes are just a waste of peoples' lives and money; unless you grow Tobacco.

Yes because tobacco products such as cigarettes do nothing but bad things to people. They are expensive and unhealthy.

You see, Chuck, it does harm others, not only yourself... They're expensive too, which is not a good thing given our current economic situation!!

The tobacco and the cigarettes should be banned little by little even for who wants to smoke. If the people smoke, the producers will continue producing. If they do it, more and more people will commit the error too cause the propagandas will continue. And some people do want to stop smoking. And more, if you smokes is your choice, but it is annoying for non-smokers and it prejudice the passive smokers too! It is a bad thing for who smokes, who doesn't do it and for who wants to stop because of the examples that that person has!

Eventually. At the moment, culture is the only incentive to start smoking. After that it's addiction. They shouldn't abruptly be banned, because that would be somewhat catastrophic given how much tobacco is apart of our culture.

Instead, we simply need to ween culture off cigarettes. Then, when people stop having incentive to smoke other then to be retarded, that's when we ban it. But at the moment, it cannot and should not be done. I have a lot of friends who smoke because they cannot afford anti-depressants. Taking that away from then abruptly would, again, be wrong. What we should be focused on is making people's lives better so they don't have incentives like stress to make them desire to smoke. Then we get rid of tobacco products.

Yes, it harms others, not just yourself, it shouldn't be legal.

yes please do! people die that way and nobody wants that. if u do smoke consider stopping and look up online what it can do to you plus what's in a cigarettes. you will be disgusted.

i see no reason why they shouldn't be banned. people who smoke not only harm themselves but people around them as well. passive smoking is more harmful than active smoking. what did passive smokers do to deserve this?? and tobacco is an addictive substance so definitely addictive substances should be banned; once you get used to it, it's hard to kick the habit.

I think they should be banned, but should not be abruptly banned. I personally hate cigarettes because I have asthma and when someone around me is smoking, I can't breath. If they were just harming themselves by smoking, then whatever; it was their choice in the first place. But they don't only harm themselves by smoking. I don't think a lot of people realize how bad it really is for someone, like me, with asthma or something like that to have to always have to be afraid that while walking through town, someone nearby will be smoking and they suddenly won't be able to breath anymore. It happens that fast sometimes...

I understand that some people use cigarettes and such as a "last resort" if they can't afford to get anti-depressants or things like that, but it needs to stop. Not abruptly, like I said before, but gradually we do need to get cigarettes and tobacco products out of people's every day lives.

Yes, because It does no good but only bad. It takes us to the silent death.

Yes they should. But they will never be. They bring in too much money for the government to ban them. They see it as the individuals choice. They keep a product on the market, and see who is foolish enough to kill themselves.

Yes. Tobacco is harmful to human health and statistics show.

I think cigarettes should be banned because it damages your lungs, and cigarettes are actually worse than other illegal drugs such as heroin and marijuana.

Yes and I will reiterate this again. It harms your body, your body is blessing onto you yet you continue to abuse it. Think about others in poor health who would give anything for a new bill of health, yet here you are, actively poisoning your body.

I have a friend who has asthma and cannot be around people who smoke, i'm not interested in what the stats are and to what extent secondary smoke harms others, the fact is that it does and nothing gives you the right to inflict harm on others, there is no justification for that. Same applies to alcohol, why do would people drink something that inhibits your senses and common sense i might add, but i guess thats another debate for another day.