XPost: uk.politics.drugs, uk.legal   
   From: tvaerskaegg@aol.com   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:24:19 -0700, B Sellers  wrote:   
      
   >Walter Bushell wrote:   
   >> In article <88af45t4ppr7q8nqbcsofbbgiat28bfmcs@4ax.com>,   
      
   >>  Svenne  wrote:   
      
   >>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:27:59 +0100, "Aidy"    
   >>> wrote:   
      
   >>>> 500,000 a year die from smoking, 700 from heroin.   
   >>>> The difference?  Smoking is legal, advertised and promoted.  Hey, why not   
   >>>> legalise heroin too?  It will mean less people getting addicted and less   
   >>>> deaths.   
      
   >>> Better still, why not criminalise tobacco.   
      
   >Because prohibition is simply evil when applied to consensual   
   >acts by or between consenting adults.   
      
   There would be tremendous advantages to be gained from criminalising   
   tobacco. The number of addicts would fall tremendously and the death   
   toll from tobacco would fall from hundreds of thousands per year to   
   just a few hundred. There would be massive falls in some types of   
   crime as criminals moved from theft, robbery and mugging into tobacco   
   dealing, making life safer for ordinary people.  Tobacco addicts do   
   not steal to support their habit, so  there would be no change in the   
   number of tobacco users turning to aquisitive crime, especially   
   considering that the price of tobacco would fall after   
   criminalisation. Everyone would be a winner.   
      
   I think that Aidy should be made Drug Czar and put his ideas into   
   practice immediatly.   
      
   Svenne   
      
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