Ban cigarettes - balance the budget. How about that for a big idea?
They can't balance the budget with all the revenue they get from cigs now, how's that going to help?
So if we ban cigs, should we also ban.....
Saturated fats (heart disease)? Alcohol/Carbohydrates/Sugars/Beans (diabetes)? The list is endless.
The only way to stop people from starting to smoke, is peer pressure imo. If it's uncool to smoke, kids won't start.
This is already happening, I just asked my daughter and her boyfriend how many kids at school smoke. They said between 10 and 50 smoke regularly, out of 1200 kids at the school. That's less than 5%. There were a lot more than that smoking when I went to school.
