Smoking as a Public Health Issue

[Armadegon]

Smoking is a constant anoyance, from the dangers of second hand smoke to very real chalenges of avoiding falling off the cliff and onto the slippery slope of nicotine usage. There are several things I can think of that could reduce smoking without completely banning it. Feel free to post your feelings on any of them or on the issue of tabbaco usage in genral.

1. Ban or limit adveretising of tobacco products. This would reduce the ways that tobbaco buisnesses could tempt young people into smoking. A deffinite option and one that would have minimal impact on any industry other than tobbaco.
2. A special tax on tobbaco products. Driving up the cost would help fund our government and provide another incentive to stay off of tabaco. Kill two birds with one stone.
3.Ban smoking in certain areas like cars and subway stations. No real affect on industry or smokers but would reduce the amount of second hand smoke.
4.Do nothing. This would... Do nothing. Suprise.

Voila. Please feel free to coment or state another way that smoking could be reduced.