[D. Brian Carter]

'Ban all tobacco' - US health chief

...create a new black market, more gang violence, higher crime rates, more illicit sales with no taxation....

Has anyone learned ANYTHING from the Prohibition Era or the current War on Drugs????

[Dutch Boy]

The fun will really start when the tobacco companies decide that it is no longer profitable to product and switch to other products. It wouldn't be the government declaring a prohibition. It would be the manufacturer making a product obsolete. Talk about panic and hysteria. Congress would have a mass stroke.

[Skywalk]

LOL

Look at it like this, this is a chance for us non-criminals to make ourselves a tidy profit by catering to an even LARGER drug market than cocaine or marijuana.

[Orangedog]

Has anyone learned ANYTHING from the Prohibition Era or the current War on Drugs????

Law Enforcement and the political hacks that they answer to have learned quite a bit. They know that this would be one more thing that they can pull you over for on the road, use to get a no-knock search warrant so your front door can be kicked in and then confiscate your property. It's not about public health... it's not about saving medicare...and no, it's not even "for the children." It's about money and control.

[basil]

Bingo! You sure hit the nail on the head!

Just what we need--another huge bureaucracy fighting another war on some substance. This one will be particularly onerous, since the use of tobacco has been so popular for so many years.

[templar]

Has anyone learned ANYTHING from the Prohibition Era or the current War on Drugs????

Yeah, it has lots of money and employment in it for the various government agencies involved.

[Publicus]

Good points.

[lodwick]

Of course not.