Do you think cigarettes will ever "die" out?

[mrkun]

If smoking is regulated any more in California, it will become illegal.

 

[Atheus]

People like drugs. It's about as likely to die out as beer or cocaine.

 

[IGBT]

..will end up like laudanum.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

So is heroin and other black market opiates. Hell, no counter required.

 

[clickynext]

Yes, eventually so few people will smoke, and the market for them will be so small, that they will be able to make it a banned substance.

 

[Compton]

Cigarettes contribute toward global warming so I'm sure they will be banned... along with internal combustion engines and incandescent light bulbs.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: clickynext
Yes, eventually so few people will smoke, and the market for them will be so small, that they will be able to make it a banned substance.

Yep, just like drugs and alcohol...

Oh, wait...

 

[clickynext]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: clickynext
Yes, eventually so few people will smoke, and the market for them will be so small, that they will be able to make it a banned substance.

Yep, just like drugs and alcohol...

Oh, wait...

Of course there will still be a market for it like a lot of other drugs, if it is banned. And what does alcohol have to do with it?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: clickynext

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: clickynext
Yes, eventually so few people will smoke, and the market for them will be so small, that they will be able to make it a banned substance.

Yep, just like drugs and alcohol...

Oh, wait...

Of course there will still be a market for it like a lot of other drugs, if it is banned. And what does alcohol have to do with it?

Prohibition?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

So is heroin and other black market opiates. Hell, no counter required.

..there will always be junkies . Laudanum was making unsuspecting grocery store patrons into junkies. It was also used to quiet crying babies resulting in frequent overdose and addiction.

 

[ponyo]

Been to China lately?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Naustica
Been to China lately?

..lots of smokers there I hear.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

So is heroin and other black market opiates. Hell, no counter required.

..there will always be junkies . Laudanum was making unsuspecting grocery store patrons into junkies. It was also used to quiet crying babies resulting in frequent overdose and addiction.

No one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's addictiveness for hundreds of years. And no one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's health effects for nearly 60 years (even before people knew smokers were less healthy and died sooner).

So it's kinda moot.

Banning a substance doesn't make it go away and does nothing to curb addictions.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

So is heroin and other black market opiates. Hell, no counter required.

..there will always be junkies . Laudanum was making unsuspecting grocery store patrons into junkies. It was also used to quiet crying babies resulting in frequent overdose and addiction.

No one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's addictiveness for hundreds of years. And no one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's health effects for nearly 60 years (even before people knew smokers were less healthy and died sooner).

So it's kinda moot.

Banning a substance doesn't make it go away and does nothing to curb addictions.

..I suspect nicotine content will be regulated in the near future. And additives like amonia used to increase nicotine absorbtion and "flash" will be removed from tobacco. Henery Waxman has a list of things he want's to do to tobacco including nicotine reduction and regulation. Possibly making high nicotine content a prescription only product.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: IGBT
..will end up like laudanum.

Which is just opium. And the most popular way to take opiates in the US now are pills and heroin.

Yeah, that died out, didn't it?

..laudanum was sold over the counter. No prescription required.

So is heroin and other black market opiates. Hell, no counter required.

..there will always be junkies . Laudanum was making unsuspecting grocery store patrons into junkies. It was also used to quiet crying babies resulting in frequent overdose and addiction.

No one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's addictiveness for hundreds of years. And no one has been "unsuspecting" of tobacco's health effects for nearly 60 years (even before people knew smokers were less healthy and died sooner).

So it's kinda moot.

Banning a substance doesn't make it go away and does nothing to curb addictions.

..I suspect nicotine content will be regulated in the near future. And additives like amonia used to increase nicotine absorbtion and "flash" will be removed from tobacco. Henery Waxman has a list of things he want's to do to tobacco including nicotine reduction and regulation. Possibly making high nicotine content a prescription only product.

All of which will do nothing to stem addiction.

When will people realize you cannot regulate away vice?

At any rate, cigarettes will not go away. They will be homemade, smuggled or made by crime orgs but they will not go away.

If you think the war on drugs is bad, try banning tobacco use.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Over time fewer people will start the habit but I seriously doubt they'll outlaw smoking totally.They make too much tax money on tobbacco and besides,if they outlaw smoking they'll turn a whole lot of otherwise good citzens into felons,not an outcome that anybody wants.

They did that during prohibition, though. I know that was a long time ago, but it makes you wonder how such a bad idea was allowed to take place. Then again, we have the same bad ideas with our drug laws.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: Amused
All of which will do nothing to stem addiction.

When will people realize you cannot regulate away vice?

At any rate, cigarettes will not go away. They will be homemade, smuggled or made by crime orgs but they will not go away.

If you think the war on drugs is bad, try banning tobacco use.

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