Smoking should be banned worldwide.

Researchers find that smoking bans can reduce the number of heart attacks by as much as 26 percent per year. ... The cardiac benefits increased with longer ban duration.” According to projections by the authors, a nationwide ban on public smoking could prevent as many as 154,000 heart attacks each year.

@iamsyed69 said in #1:

Researchers find that smoking bans can reduce the number of heart attacks by as much as 26 percent per year. ... The cardiac benefits increased with longer ban duration.” According to projections by the authors, a nationwide ban on public smoking could prevent as many as 154,000 heart attacks each year.

I agree with you :)

https://lichess.org/forum/off-topic-discussion/the-deadly-ncd#5
I made a same topic 1 week ago...u may read my views there

Smoking should be banned worldwide.

Hate to break it to you but it ain't happening.For various reasons.

@ZwischenzugX11 said in #4:

Hate to break it to you but it ain't happening.For various reasons.

Yeah thats true and very sad

#5
Yeah, very sad indeed.

"One of the main arguments for the continuance of tobacco sales is that the government should not dictate what vices the public engages in. Alcohol and gambling are restricted but not prohibited."

Governments enjoy the tax revenue that come from tobacco sales. There are so many businesses, both big and small that make their income off tobacco and cigarette sales and their production. Plus, there is a huge percentage of people in the world that smoke.

Smoking is a choice. People need to understand the consequences and risks and abstain from it by making a conscience choice themselves. So, the way I see it , "Smoking cannot be banned, but awareness of its' immense ill-effects can be spread."

Not only smoking
Drugs alcohol too

The only thing you accomplish when you try to ban things like smoking is to drive it underground were it becomes a source of revenue for criminals and put the users at greater risk of tainted ingredients.

Besides, people should be responsible for their own actions. If they think that the enjoyment of smoking is worth the drop in life expectancy for themselves, then that's their choice.

People should be allowed to smoke, as it’s their body they are hurting; not others.

I believe that instead of banning smoking, people should spent that time, effort, and money to spread the truth about smoking, so that people know exactly what they are in for before deciding rather they want to smoke or not - the risks, the probability of the risks, etc.