yeah i thought about that after i posted, i was ranting a bit i hate the anti smokers wanting to take something i love away from me. But yes the anti-smoking ads have discouraged some from smoking cigarettes, but i dont feel like they have the right to make it illegal, which i dont think it will in america.
fun fact: North Carolina (my home state) has been one of the centers of the US tobacco industry. North Carolina ranks first in the United States in the production of tobacco, with 2006 annual farm income of $506.2 million. So tobacco doesn't just cost the government money, they make a lot from it. This also is the reason i dont think tobacco will become illegal here, my state was founded off of it.
Easy solution, make the fine extremely high. Nobody wants to pay a few thousand for a pack of cigs.
Also, I was only working with the numbers I was given in the thread, I don't even know if they're correct.
>tobacco farms make $506.1 mil
>costs the government $760 mil
i dont know what kind of maths youre doing but it certainly isn't right
by the way, "the government" doesn't even farm tobacco.
you seem ignorant, a bit of research before jumping into a arguement wouldn't have been hard to do. But to correct you, the gov makes money off TAX from cigarettes. This country was founded off of tobacco, when we first colonized we traded tobacco for money, it played a big part in building america. Oh yeah that 506.2 mil is from ONE state out of the US, cigarettes will not be illegal in america and that's that. I'm off this thread all these anti smoking kids are impossible to argue with. Have a nice day on this discussion.
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