Tobacco use is associated with increased risk of cancer, heart disease and stroke, degradation of respiratory health, degradation of the health of non-smokers, and health problems for mother and child during pregnancy. The use of tobacco products of any kind has no beneficial effects. On the order of 500,000 deaths yearly are related to tobacco use, 50 times all gun murders, and tobacco use is related to on the order of $200 billion of health care costs yearly.
Manufacturers and importers of commercial tobacco products spend in excess of $8 billion yearly promoting the use of their products, i.e pushing their drugs, to new, mostly young, smokers, because current smokers are dying.
Prohibition of tobacco, like all prohibition is futile. Take the profit out of tobacco promotion.
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