User blog comment:Churchpants/What Would You Do to Change the World?/@comment-4319470-20120312044453/@comment-3424724-20120312055333

YOU HAVE GOOD OPINIONS!

I agree with everything. The only problem is that making cigarettes won't make people stop smoking. When alcohol was made illegal in the early 1900's, did people stop drinking? No. They just created underground bars. When crack was made illegal, did druggies stop doing crack? No. They just found drug dealers. The same thing would probably happen if cigarettes were made illegal. In a perfect world, that would work. But smoking is addictive. Some people will go to great lengths to smoke, even if it means breaking the law. I think the best thing we can do is make sure that young people don't start smoking. Because if they start, they will be customers for life (or until they quit, but that is actually unlikely). If we stop new smokers, we can put cigerette companies out of business within the next hundred years. Then there will be just a very tiny amount of smokers left. They will be insignificant enough that secondhand smoke is no longer a problem.

^That probably made zero sense. My brain is fried.