Why should cigarettes be legal?

Answer 1

There are many reasons why the government will never ban cigarettes even though smoking is the number one health risk in the U. S. First and foremost, the tobacco companies are too big and their lobby is too powerful. It would affect the economic status of several states. The magnitude of such a law would make it impossible to enforce. A black market would arise immediately and permeate every area inhabited by people.

Answer 2

Cigarettes should not have to be illegal. If the harmful chemicals were not present there would be no reason to ban smoking. There are more than four thousand *harmful* chemicals put into cigarettes, some of which can be found in household cleaning products (ammonia), insecticides (hydrogen cyanide), and rat poison (arsenic). Those are only 3 examples of what's put into cigarettes! Farmed tobacco is not what it use to be.