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Debate Score:21
Arguments:20
Total Votes:21
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Should cigarettes be illegal?

I ask becaus it has lots of health complications and has more visual affects on your body. What's your opinion?

Yes because...

Side Score: 9
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No because...

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If weed is, so should cigarettes.

Side: Yes because...
1 point

This is one of the things that actually doing it harms other people. There are few times when this is the case. I don't know why there isn't regulation to make it safer.

Side: Yes because...

Hmmm. Maybe not illegal but they should have strict limitations on them? I'm just thinking like people may get mad if they become illegal.

Side: Yes because...
1 point

I always wondered why the cigarette companies didn't make it cleaner with less preservatives and less dangerous. People wouldn't get as sick, plus they couldn't keep their cigarettes just lying around because they will spoil.

Side: Yes because...
J-Roc77(70) Disputed
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Your first link is almost 20 years old, pretty bad for anything science related.

Your second link is a blog that cites the third link for a portion of its argument.

The third link is attacking a scientific study that is over 20 years old again. Also the framing of the argument is not quite right, as is often the case with the heartland. They state the study does not make a hard case for correlation then go with a fallacy called 'negative proof fallacy'. They are saying since the EPA report did not prove what they wanted then the opposite is true. Nope, to prove the opposite is true you have to prove that it is true.

If someone is attacking old science when new science is available that should be a red flag that their argument may be weak. Here is some non blogs that have some RECENT information. These findings are derived from peer reviewed studies and have their citations at the bottom of the pages, several things that are often neglected in documents from the heartland.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/ETS

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/datastatistics/factsheets/secondhandsmoke/healtheffects/

http://www.epa.gov/smokefree/pubs/strsfs.html

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12649

Side: Yes because...
1 point

Regular Smoke Is Harmful. Cigarette Smoke Must Be. But, For Sure The Danger Has Been Overblown.

Side: No because...

Cigarettes are harmful not only to yourself but to others as well. If you really need a stimulant, have an energy drink.

Side: Yes because...
1 point

Until the day all plants and natural occurring things on the earth are considered legal, cigarettes should be illegal. They are poisonous and destructive. I don't know how anyone can smoke a cigarette and think that it's no big deal. I'm not a prude or a stuck up sonofabitch but seriously, those things are terrible for you. I do partake in smoking and ingesting marijuana for both recreation and for any pain/inflammation I may have at the time. It makes me pretty mad that it is looked down upon and seen as a "dirty" thing to do by many people, my family and friends included. One day people, one day it will be legal across the board.

Side: Yes because...

If people want to decrease their life expectancy and cause all kinds of health problems then it is up to them.

Side: No because...
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What about second hand smoke?

Side: No because...

That just means that people should not be able to smoke in public.

Side: No because...

It's a personal habit and should be left to personal choice. Also, how have we not learned out lesson with drug prohibition? It has failed pretty much every time.

Side: No because...

If they're outside or in their own home, yes. They already have enough laws to stop people from being dicks.

Side: No because...

No, but the poisons put in them by a corrupt government should be.

Side: No because...