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Originally Posted by shakran
Wrong on both counts. Frankly I think that in consideration of other drug laws cigarettes should logically be illegal. Seems kinda stupid to say "all these drugs are bad for you and so they're illegal, but cigarettes are bad for you too and they're not illegal." It just doesn't make sense, and I feel laws should be logical.
Realistically I think ALL drugs should be legal. If you want to kill yourself by overdosing on meth, hey, go to town. That's your decision, it doesn't effect me, and I don't think the government should be in the position of legislating stupidity when that stupidity only effects the one being stupid.
So yes, I absolutely think cigarettes should be legal, and it's not because I secretly want to be an evil overlord controlling every aspect of Pan's paranoid life. It's because I think if you want to smoke, that should be your choice.
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joining this debate quite late on - but for what it is worth i agree with this. if heroin, cocaine, weed, lsd, etc, etc are illegal because they are bad for you then alcohol and tobacco should also be illegal. i say make everything legal, control it at a national level, let people do what they want in their own time and space, make it as safe as possible for every user, tax the buggery out of it and then provide as much information and education as possible to everyone so that they can make their own decision.
i can't understand why a smoker would argue the right to pass on their poisonous secondhand smoke to other people (especially children) but then i'll never understand why someone would want to drink so much that they have no control over their actions and do really agressive stupid things that they wouldn't normally do (did you know that 85% of all violent crimes in britain are committed under the influence of alcohol?)
anyway that's my two tuppence worth