beagle9
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I wonder why that is ?Ciggarettes are still a major problem, and are killing indiscriminantly every single day in America. Some just take longer to show up in the hospitals than others, but they will eventually get there, and it ain't pretty when they do. Ciggarettes have been legal for ever in America, yet the war is still on going against them in America, and it is picking up steam and taking many forms in order to battle them.We know the existing drug laws don't work, so end the drug war and deal with the use of harmful drugs in a more intelligent manner and there won't be dealers in public parks.
Consider that nicotine is more addictive than heroin but the use of cigarettes has been reduced by more than 50% in the past two decades -- without arresting a single user or dealer. It was done through public education.
Making ciggarettes illegal in America, and this within many places in which they use to be legal or allowed to openly smoke them, has reduced smoking big time in America. Anything helps, so making drugs legal would be like ciggarettes where they have been legal also in America for ever (not solve anything), where as an epidemic had been started with cancer in relation to smoking, and sadly in which the nation has been paying for big time for over the years, and has sadly watched some horrific dying over the years because of or in relation to this scourage, so the battle goes on. Did you really mean to use ciggarettes in defense of legalizing drugs?
Interestingly enough, if you smoke cigarettes, you are 21 times more likely than someone who doesn't smoke at all to get lung cancer.
If you smoke cannabis ONLY, you are 0.93 to 0.73 as likely to get lung cancer as someone who doesn't smoke at all.