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Originally Posted by transplant99
Again...how do you plan on "getting rid of it"?
Prohibition....learn it and love it. And that was with a substance that didnt have near the same amount of people with addiction.
heroin, crack, weed, meth, child pornography, etc etc...all illegal and all fostering an underground trade that in itself is so much more dangerous than that of a government imposing restrictions.
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But I don't see anyone complaining about legalizing something like meth which, to me anyways, seems to be much more similar to smoking than does alcohol.
It's all speculation, obviously. It would be a completely unique case, opposed to something like prohibition.
It also seems to me that the only reason smoking is still around is because of its history, not because of the product itself. The whole 70s era of smoking where smokers were "cool" and "distinguished" and whatnot. Like Bobblehead said, can you imagine marketing the product nowadays? Can you imagine something that's like smoking (ie does
not have any positives and is not safe in moderation) becoming prolific now?
Edit: I don't know why people are associating the problems with the black market on the ban of smoking or alcohol themselves. To me they are totally separate issues. Ban smoking to remove it's issues now; the issues associated with its banning are associated with anything made illegal. Like I said, I don't see anyone complaining about the sales of drugs like meth, because we can't imagine having those things legal.