Do you still smoke or did you quit?

win231 said:
Let's not forget how many DOCTORS accepted big money to promote smoking. Doctors - who took an oath to protect & heal.........except when money is involved. Thinking people think about this before blindly following all their doctors' advice - including vaccinations:
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In fairness to doctors, in the 50's when the ill effects of smoking became apparent, doctor endorsements ceased.
"By the mid-1950s more research was being published that confirmed a link between tobacco products and lung cancer. Growing concerns among the public about the dangers of smoking cigarettes meant the slow disappearance of the ‘physician’ from cigarette ads."
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/doctors-smoking-cigarette-1930-1950/

As for the claims that making cigarettes illegal would be ineffective because drug dealers would take over the cigarette trade, perhaps partially true, but Illegality would undoubtedly impact manufacture and sale and reduce the numbers of current and new smokers, so why aren't we doing it? I doubt it has anything to do with money. More likely a fear by politicians that supporting illegality would cost them the vote of smokers, of which there are still millions in the United States.
 

ElCastor said:
In fairness to doctors, in the 50's when the ill effects of smoking became apparent, doctor endorsements ceased.
"By the mid-1950s more research was being published that confirmed a link between tobacco products and lung cancer. Growing concerns among the public about the dangers of smoking cigarettes meant the slow disappearance of the ‘physician’ from cigarette ads."
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/doctors-smoking-cigarette-1930-1950/

As for the claims that making cigarettes illegal would be ineffective because drug dealers would take over the cigarette trade, perhaps partially true, but Illegality would undoubtedly impact manufacture and sale and reduce the numbers of current and new smokers, so why aren't we doing it? I doubt it has anything to do with money. More likely a fear by politicians that supporting illegality would cost them the vote of smokers, of which there are still millions in the United States.
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No doctors. Just players.

By your own article, "To allay fears, tobacco brands hired throat “doctors” (that is, models dressed in white coats) to explain that dust, germs, or a lack of menthol were to blame, not the cigs themselves.

This article doesn't seem to admit any doctors accepted payments or bribes, although they were offered.
 

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RadishRose said:
I agree with everything you say.

But if Prohibition didn't work, the War on Drugs didn't work, Just Say No didn't work.....what do you propose we do to "stop the madness"?

Drugs pour into this country and are sold everywhere. Drug gangs and the Mafia make too much money.

Tobacco will become just another illegal substance sold right under everyone's noses, making criminals rich, sad to say.
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Well RadishRose, let me turn your question around!

Do you think the long-term war on drugs has stopped anyone from getting hooked on drugs? ...be honest now!?

I believe if we can stop only one child/ young adult from getting addicted to tobacco, then I say the related costs to stop them are worth it. Also, if we were able to reduce the radio of young adults that do start smoking/ chewing by 10-20% the health cost savings to our society over their lives will pay for the cost associated to stopping them. I also recognize that we would have to have a process for the millions who currently are addicted to purchase their tobacco of choice. Same way heroin drug addicts have access to drugs to get them through their addiction.

Pricing cigarettes out of the market will stop some, but many will just steal them, or make money illegally or just buy them from the black-market that will develop.

Anything more we do as a society will help, but nothing we can do will stop everyone from smoking.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Well RadishRose, let me turn your question around!

Do you think the long-term war on drugs has stopped anyone from getting hooked on drugs? ...be honest now!?

I believe if we can stop only one child/ young adult from getting addicted to tobacco, then I say the related costs to stop them are worth it. Also, if we were able to reduce the radio of young adults that do start smoking/ chewing by 10-20% the health cost savings to our society over their lives will pay for the cost associated to stopping them. I also recognize that we would have to have a process for the millions who currently are addicted to purchase their tobacco of choice. Same way heroin drug addicts have access to drugs to get them through their addiction.

Pricing cigarettes out of the market will stop some, but many will just steal them, or make money illegally or just buy them from the black-market that will develop.

Anything more we do as a society will help, but nothing we can do will stop everyone from smoking.
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That is what I was getting at all along, so I don't really understand your post. I must have not been clear. So if that's the case, forgive me.

I won't be responding further.
1- the topic reminds me of smoking.
2- I'm bored with it now.
 
My parents never smoked. The only time I ever smoked was at age 11 when we neighborhood kids went to a movie theater and smoked one kid's parents cigarettes in the back. That was a foul enough experience I never repeated it. I have a sensitive olfaction sense to the point I dislike being in rooms for longer periods with smokers just because I smell it in their breath. That noted as a young twenty-something, I endured considerable other's smoke in clubs and bars.
 
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