It employs numerous low-skilled workers in the United States. It brings in profits from other countries. The loss of tax revenues that go, or are supposed to, for education. But that's a rather small benefit to the huge costs of the roughly hundred-thousand smoking related deaths each year.
The real reason cigarettes aren't outlawed is because of the enormous quantities of money involved with the excise taxes. The vast majority of the cost of a pack of cigarettes is due to taxes and the states' lawsuit settlement. The supposed reason that's usually mentioned is the failure of prohibition when it was tried with alcohol.
it would also create a black market because there are actually people WHO ENJOY SMOKING TOBACCO.
1) The general public's education on the matter is mostly corrupt.
2) There is no safe amount of stair you can climb without running a risk of falling and breaking your neck, even when your just climb a tree for the fun of it. If all dangers were made illegal, there wouldn't be anything left to do.
A Third Answer 1) Thousands of highly lucrative jobs in Tobacco Control would be lost.
2) The profits of the pharmaceutical companies would fall.
3) People would live longer, increasing the load on health and other welfare services even more than smokers.
why smoking SHOULDN'T be banned:
- Lots of jobs would be lost in the cigarette making places-it calms people down if they're stressed -it can sometimes be used as a medicine to keep people alive-stops them from killing themselves (a guy committed suicide because there weren't anymore cigarettes in the shop (what a jerk!))