why is smoking legal?

[Onii Chan]

it doesn't matter if people stop smoking, name one person you see actually smoking a '' cigarette ''. everyone is vaping, bongs, etc, people will do whatever to feel good, you cant stop them, never will.

 

[123fire]

I dont even need it, tbh, i dont know why am i smoking.... even when i light up in the morning with coffee i feel dizzy

You're addicted. Why start it in the firet place? Are u weak willed?

 

[Caliburn]

Because it got a strong foothold in the country early(way back when natives were common) on and doesn't seem to make its users seem... lost? or impair them during use.
I get that tobacco is pretty big, but I've always wondered why alcohol is still a thing. I can't tell you how many arguments, fights, breakups, awful choices, and deaths have been fueled out of the shit. Not even mentioning that the shit can even affect your children harshly.

Because it's even more deeply rooted in human culture than smoking? We've been drinking alcoholic beverages ever since the first civilizations came into being and beer in particular has played an important role. Till very recently if you lived in the city and you wanted to stay healthy, you really had to drink beer as the rivers were used as sewers. If you drank water from that, you were guaranteed to become sick or even die. In the case of beer however, during the beer-brewing process the harmful germs were killed, making beer rather save to drink.

Depending on the beverage, alcohol can have certain health benefits. It's just when you drink it excessively it becomes really dangerous.

So smoking and alcohol are likewise not really comparable in that regards and I already mentioned the example of America's attempt in trying to ban alcohol.

 

[Uverdore9]

no matter what u compare with smoke it's always gonna be 100x worse.

look at the pic man...

if people close to u smoke stop them before it's too late

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I never realized smoking was this bad lmfao.

 

[Ryu Kishi]

Because the cigarette company's have alot of money

 

[Nidaime Suiton]

Because when the cigarette started to be commercialised, the official health authorities didn't consider the cigarette as dangerous. And during this time , the cigarette lobby considerably developped at himself to become very powerful. And when the cigarette started to be consider as dangerous, it was too late because the powerful cigarette lobby would obstruct all initiative to forbid this product.

And in countries like France there are high taxes on sold products so the state earn much money with cigarette sales. Otherwise, the state doesn't agree to forbid the cigarette because it's a very lucrative revenue.