Which Industry?

1. Which Industry? • $35.1 billion each year

2. Anti Cigarette Prohibition Annie Zircher

3. Legal or Illegal?

4. America Needs Cigarettes • We have freedom • Provides for our economy • If illegal, a black market would be created

5. Individual Right to Privacy • The government has no right to tell us what to put into our bodies.

6. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness • Freedom to make our own decisions.

7. Issue: Secondhand Smoke • Nonsmokers shouldn’t have to suffer so… • Their increasing laws that limit smoking in public areas and smoking in cars with children.

8. Cigarettes are Important for our Economy

9. Unfortunately… • Medical costs from smoking are higher than the profit from cigarettes sold. = Lost Productivity

10. However… • Over 700,000 jobs in the cigarette industry. • 1.6 million U.S adults are supported from this industry.

11. Black Market

12. Smokers will smoke cigarettes whether they’re illegal or not. • The Law won’t stop them because of the addiction they create.

13. Violence = Prison

14. Prescription drugs and/or therapy are often needed to treat addiction. • Tax money often covers this creating lost productivity.

15. Comparable to 18th Amendment • Prohibition of Alcohol • Resulted in a failure just like prohibition of cigarettes would

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