understand you. But you can't compare. These are totally different issues, polluting has always been illegal, you don't find Quick Check selling buckets of toxic waste. It wasn't like someone said its okay to dump nuclear waste and sold it, and then they're like okay well you can only dump your waste in certain areas. Intangible issues such as the previous are easy to solve, smoking involves human beings, therefore you enter a whole other realm. I find it an oxymorone that the government is trying to ban something, that they themselves made legal. My only point to you, and Im sure you understand this already, is look behind the "real deal". If they think cigarettes are so bad and they should be banned, then why doesn't the government stop production of them completely? LEts get real, they don't care about you, or your health, they care about $, and getting money, if they didn't then this wouldn't even be an issue. Im not blaming anyone for my addiction.... If you look at it from an Ethical view lets put it this way: Kants ethics ask: Would you want to someone to do something to you that you wouldn't want done to yourself? No, I wouldn't want someone to sell cigarettes to me and make me physically addicted and then push me away from society. You can use the same to argue your point/ #2 Don't use human beings as a means to an ends treat them with respect. Well I believe the cigarette companies failed miserably in this area. The same government that used Philip MOrris to back their dinner party, now wants nothing to do with them. I know you're probably a smart person, and I understand your point, I just believe that this is ethically not motivated correctly from the start. And if their Ethical Maxim is to get people to stop smoking, I believe they are doing it the wrong way, and therefore failing. And llovesd seems to be that 20-30% Please do not refer to me as stupid, that is one thing I am not, I appreciate it.