[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Another thing to consider to anyone who is on the "Let people decide for themselves" side of the coin.
How many other products are out there that the vast majority of users will actively tell you that they wish they could stop using, and that there are huge industries to help people quite using that product?
If the entire point of your product is to get people addicted, is that really allowing people a choice?

When you've got a product that has such a detrimental effect on people, that is almost impossible to use responsibly or in moderation, and that the vast majority of users became addicted to as minors, that doesn't seem like a product that we should have sitting around on shelves. Making it illegal won't keep it out of the hands of minors, as it doesn't now, but slowing reducing access eventually will.

The obvious counter would be things like Pot, junkfood, or booze.
I would argue that all of those things can be, and in most cases are used in moderation. They certainly have their problems, and cause various degrees of damage to people and society, but the addiction rate to any of them isn't near the same scale as cigarettes. They are also major industries, so who knows, maybe there is a strictly economic argument to be made for them, vs what is increasingly a niche product.

Heck, I'll even concede that I don't want to get rid of those things because I like them. That doesn't mean I can't be on board to get rid of something else that is obviously harmful.