So I have to debate on why smoking cigarettes shouldn’t be banned.
How do I defend when someone says it causes lung cancer?
and also, how do I respond to second-hand smoke?
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Really Hard Debate Question?
Posted on May 21, 2013.
Here’s a secret I’ve learned over time in thousand of arguments.
Defending a topic like smoking is nearly impossible. Its addictive, its bad for you, it causes cancer.
By identifying the obvious, you remove those topics as weapon for your opponent. It really messes up their game plan.
So how do you defend smoking.
Tobacco is one of the last farm economies outside of corn…think about all those poor farmers who would be out of work. It is historical, we’ve been cultivating tobacco since the 1790. It was originally cultivated by the native americans. It’s part of our heritage.
Smoking is a choice. No one forces you to smoke. So any health problems that occur as a result of smoking should be equally on the user of the product. The cigarette companies have to put warns on the packs so who is real to blame for cancer? The cigarette or the person?
We make products that kill people all the time. The car, kills people. Planes kill people. And we’ve licensed people to use them, cigarettes are given warnings and age limits. What else is expected. It could be argued that enough people smoke to warrant legal use. Look at recent laws regarding marijuana….
In short, you are looking for the answer – is it better to make it illegal or to keep it legal? What is the best possible out come if it were to be illegal? More money spent on law enforcement to prevent cigarettes from coming to market?
So now you’ve forced farmers out of work, you’ve spent more on enforcing a new law, when really the user has to make the choice not to smoke. No one is forcing them and there are things that can kill you faster on the market than cancer can.
It would be like alcohol.
–banning it would be hard because people will try to evade ban
–Illegal production and sales will occur causing crime (gangs fight over sales territory)
–As long as people are informed of the dangers they have a right to smoke something they enjoy
–some don’t get lung cancer
2nd hand smoke is nasty, however.
Well if a person debates that it causes lung cancer show them facts of other drugs that kill (play from and smoking company). You can also say it shouldn’t be banned because of how much money it brings into the U.S. economy and also about if you quit cold turkey it will suck balls, also just like prohibition it will start being sold illegally
well i can only answer the first one;
theres really nothing you can say to that, it also causes heart cancer (if that’s what its called…?) soooo… i think your screwed, sorry 🙁
but still, cigarettes shouldn’t be banned, but there SHOULD be a kind of restriction (besides the 19+ thing)
i found a website that might help youhttp://smokingsides.com/docs/pro.html