Should tobacco be illegal?

[Strings]

>Almost exclusively in smokers?<

I COULD see that: either the virus being carried in certain tobacco products, or smoking (and certain other activities) decreasing the body's ability to fight said virus. Still says "a link between smoking and lung cancer" though...


 And I'm a smoker: just finished one, actually...

[LAK]

Firethorn

Again, why is it targeting the smokers so much more than the non-smokers?  Would you consider smoking at least a contributing factor then?

It is the medical establishment that has targeted smokers.

I would speculate that some of the processing chemicals and additives in factory cigarettes might depress the immune system among other things.

[Perd Hapley]

It's threads like this that make me glad I've stopped posting.  Next someone will start a thread about whether rocks are edible or whether it is just a gov't inspired plot to keep people from having free food.

So you are saying that rocks aren't edible?  Do you have any links and evidence?   

[Firethorn]

It is the medical establishment that has targeted smokers.

Is it targeting smokers when they point out that they've noticed that 90% of the people they see for lung cancer are smokers?

I would speculate that some of the processing chemicals and additives in factory cigarettes might depress the immune system among other things.

You're still back to the smoking being a cause for trouble - And if the processing chemicals and additives depress the immune system then there would be various other detectable effects, organic pipe/cigar smokers wouldn't be effected as much as their consumption would warrant, etc...

Oh yeah, and the cigarette companies WOULD deserve to be sued into non-existence for that.  It's a mitigatable risk.  Don't use those chemical processes to treat the tobacco then.

[gunsmith]

I used to smoke Organic tobacco.
It was a chore keeping it lit, not like a regular cig at all.

I'm not really involved in this thread, but just to add to the noise...
I was at an Irish hippie rainbow gathering thing and it rained the whole week so we were stuck in communal tents and the non smoking hippies got into a debate with the smoking ones because the non smokers tried to ban smoking in the communal tent.

Just as a guy tried to say that smoking wasn't harmful at all, he was beset by a smoking fit.
Hilarious, SNL couldn't do any better.

[LAK]

Skydancers stay lit and burn pretty evenly too - so do those American Spirit brand. The American Spirits are pricey though.

[Firethorn]

I used to smoke Organic tobacco.
It was a chore keeping it lit, not like a regular cig at all.

Perhaps they weren't properly dried/rolled?

[Strings]

Keeping a cigarette lit only seems to be a problem when there's a lot of humidity, and the tobacco is REALLY moist...

[seeker_two]

It's threads like this that make me glad I've stopped posting.  Next someone will start a thread about whether rocks are edible or whether it is just a gov't inspired plot to keep people from having free food.

So you are saying that rocks aren't edible?  Do you have any links and evidence?   

I don't know if they're edible, but I've seen plenty of people who carry them around in their heads..... 

[LAK]

Agate and flint tend to crack my teeth. Limestone is ok - no taste though.