Imagine all of the money lost from not buying these ads, and then all the jobs lost. That's a bigger crime than addicting people.

I would like some statistics on how much money is lost. Here's some statistics for you:

according to the World Health Organization, 5 million people die every year from smoking around the world, or, 6 every second, a staggering number that could increase to more than 8 million by 2030. What you are saying is that the amount of money gained if we don't ban smoking and the tobacco industry is justified by the killing of millions of people???!!! That's not even all of the stats!

I seriously believe that the money lost from smoking is a lot greater than the money lost by the tobacco companies if smoking did not exist.

1. Primary smoking and its health side effects. Look up "side effects of smoking" and you'll get tons and tons and tons of side effects that could be caused by smoking. According to the CDC, smokers are 23 times more likely than nonsmokers to get cancer. Smokers are 4 times more likely to get coronary heart disease, 2 times more likely to get a stroke and can cause AAA. Smokers are 10 times more likely to die from chronic obstructive lung disease.

2. Secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke affects people who relate and live with smokers, generally of the same family. Almost half of all children regularly breath in secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes 600000 premature deaths per year. 28% of all children deaths are attributable by smoking. Health defects are also shown in children whose mothers were smoking while pregnant.

3. Cost of life and healthcare. Obviously tobacco companies earn a lot of money. But what about all the money that you are not considering, such as the money spent on health care to cure side effects of smoking? Or the money lost from premature deaths and lost years due to smoking? Smokers on average lose 12 years of their lifetime due to the health effects of smoking...that's 12 years that could have been spent working and earning money for your family, or improving society.

On a side note, smoking causes low blood circulation so you would feel a lot less pleasure from having sex...I'm sure that will convince just about anyone to stop smoking.

All the jobs lost

Are you kidding me? what about all the "jobs lost" from the 600 thousand children that are killed each year?

you have no right to ban commercials

Of course, you could also apply this to illegal immigration: you have no right to ban Mexicans from coming into the United States and "take over" American jobs...

To them, it's simply business and that's all it should be.

...especially if to them (Mexicans), it's simply the business of trying to get a better life than the one that they have in Mexico...and that's all it should be.

You, as a citizen, can choose to not watch it

You, as a citizen, can choose to complain about illegal immigration...

but ultimately, the television companies must make the decision

...but ultimately, the private companies who hire Mexicans must make the decision.

What I'm trying to say is that if you're going to make legislation that controls immigration (Arizona), which is not even proven to have a negative effect on American society, then you should make legislation to control smoking, which is proven to have a negative effect on society.

If it were morally wrong to promote smoking, the government would have every right to proscribe it. But it's not.

People are always responsible for themselves, no matter how much they'd like to wish it weren't so.