Cigarette smokers, the market and dirty regulations

 If our nation didn't have the view of tobacco it does, maybe it's use wouldn't have proliferated in the first place. When someone views tobacco as a drug, a tool of abuse it can proliferate the problems surrounding it. Maybe the habit surrounding the plant nicotiana in products is all in how people viewed the product, on top of it's lack of use in more traditional ways. You don't see tobacco plants being sold at greenhouses or natural loose leaf being sold(not the sprayed and cured variety's currently being marketed.), you see cigarettes as a majority product, you see an attack on e-cigs and vaporizers and it's user population through draconian taxes. I think some problems that could contribute to tobacco over-use in the future(and some of which did in the past) are with our markets and the lack of methods of consumption along with the stigmas that our society attaches to tobacco use, I think those things help push people into the market and can keep many tobacco users smoking in a habitual manner.

Look at how little our markets used to offer in the realm of organics. Now when you do see Organics the companies who sell in most shops are corporate brands. With only 1/10th of companies that were founded as organic even being allowed on the shelves of those marketplaces. I think that the way in which our markets are working(including the tobacco market) is limiting variety, limiting options and working to the detriment of our peoples health, also helping to contribute to waste and forcing consumers to stay within their class, it makes it near impossible for anyone in the consumer class to become a producer. The main outlet for attacking the freedom of the individual is a limited market achieved through the legislative process and pushing others out through market exclusivity. Our market, along with it's over-regulation in the wrong areas and under-regulation in others(like the drafting of laws that attack the little guy) helps keep our nation in a deficit monetarily, as well as health wise.

Many groups use regulations as a means of force, to bully different types of people in society. If they can regulate different demographics likes and interests or even religious views maybe they can regulate those demographics entirely. Giving someone total regulation authority gives them total authority over others if they are not held accountable. Is it OK to regulate people?


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Maybe if tobacco users got to know the plant a bit more they wouldn't abuse it as much.

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