Should cigarettes and alcohol be banned?
We have the right to par take of any dangerous activity we want, that isn't directly dangerous to our life....except cocaine, meth, heroine, apparently marijuanna but changing quickly, and a whole load of other substances and activities.
If cocaine, a substance that some people overdose and die on is illegalized because it can kill people, should cigarettes and alcohol, substances that cause some people to become ill and or die, be deemed illegal.
We (the society we live in) simply put warnings on these dangerous products, and make commercials to discourage people from using them or using them incorrectly.
The argument against marijuana is often of it being a gateway drug, but wouldn't it make sense that cigarettes led to the marijuana in the first place?
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Indeed alcohol and cigarettes should be banned as they are a health hazard and can cause serious damage to our body. Side: Yup
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Either ban all dangerous substances or legal them all. Obviously I don't want meth, and coke on the streets where people who can't make educated decisions for themselves can get to them, so I'm in favor of putting the ban on all the dangerous subjects. I am not saying take away our rights, because that was already done by making weed, coke, meth, etc... illegal, I am saying help the public be healthier around choices that don't have much of a positive affect on them by illegalization of them. Side: Yup
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I don't honestly want alcohol banned. I drink from time to time. I also don't want cocaine legalized. But from a logical standpoint, the government bans some dangerous substances but allow others to pass under the radar. What is really the difference. One life, 1000 lives. It's all the same, alcohol has killed, cocaine has killed. So ban them. Side: Yup
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I truly dislike smoking, I know that I won't ever do it and that is my choice. However, for people who do enjoy they know all of the consequences that come with it. They know their lives could be shortened and they know they could develop cancer but it's someone's personal choice to take that risk,so I feel the law should have no say in wether smoking should be legal or illegal. As for alcohol, I believe if it were to be banned that would be one of the worst mistakes because people would still find it and use it. I don't believe alcohol can be compared to being as dangerous as cocaine but most people who drink drink in moderation and many don't abuse it. Side: Nope
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Yes, that Cocaine to Alcohol analogy was over the top but it was to make viewers think. If cocaine is dangerous and alcohol is dangerous, albeit less dangerous than alcohol, and we live in a society that tries to protect us from danger, evidenced by banning cocaine, that they should either ban all the dangerous substances or let the public make their own choices about all the dangerous substances. It just so happens that for this one debate I wrote that they should ban all the dangerous subjects, rather than the very potential latter of letting all the dangerous substances be up to the educated public to decide upon. Side: Yup
I understand where you are coming from saying that both a dangerous and I do agree with that. But the people who abuse both of them are fully aware of what could happen to them. If these people want to risk their lives then that is their individual choice to do so and I don't agree that those individual rights and choices should be taken away from them. If all dangerous substances were banned I feel all hell would break lose and there would still be just as much problem with abusing it as their is now. Side: Nope
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People are gonna drink! You know that, I know that, we all know that, and all I do is act on that. And all this talk of bootlegging - what is bootlegging? On a boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality. I'm a businessman! -Al Capone Ban alcohol it just means crime rates will skyrocket as people aren't going to stop drinking unless alcohol isn't available they won't care if it's illegal or not or for that matter how much they have to pay for it Side: Nope
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