What is the
difference between cigarettes & alcohol and drugs? Why is one
legal and widely used while the other is illegal and widely used?
What separates those two kinds of goods? It
certainly isn't the nutritional value.
If both,
cigarettes and drugs, kill what gives the right to the government to
collect profits from excise on cigarettes? Tobacco goods are
considered a deadly weapon. It's even written on the label - “Smoking
kills.” Does this mean that if a drug dealer writes “Narcotics
are addictive and kill people.” on his product it's fine to sell
it?
Every day
there are special operations against cigarette and alcohol
contraband. If someone is involved in cigarette contraband
he/she/them fear(s) serious consequences imposed by the government
which plays the role of a regulator that chooses what is acceptable
and what isn't, or should I say what puts money in the budget and
what doesn't. When cigarette company like Philip Morris writes an
annual report an increase of cigarette addiction is considered a
profit. The more addicts there are, the more expensive the whores and
the cars. If the big corporations and the state make money it's all
fine – that's why the government puts so much effort into fighting
cigarette and alcohol contraband – they do it for the money, not
for your health. The illegal market steals from the national budget,
or so they say.
Why are
products like cocaine and heroine illegal for recreational usage?
First, they kill much faster. Second, they generate less money over a
longer period of time. A serious smoker who smoked for 40 years is a
stable source of income while a drug addict who loses everything he
has in a matter of a few years is more of a financial injection that
ends much faster. The smoker is a contract while the drug addict pays
in cash. In the long run the smoker is much better investment and
makes the government more legal money.
The drug
channels are controlled by the same people that sell you bread –
the state authorities. Don't you think a powerful country like the
U.S. can take out some dirty drug dealers? Do you think the billions
invested in security and military equipment are not enough to scare
some poor educated kingpins? Come on, the police needs evidence only
in the movies. The senseless military operations prove that every
day.
Everything
that kills you slowly is considered good – McDonald's, cigarettes,
alcohol, chocolate, Coca-Cola, aspartame, Haribo, pancakes, skittles,
prescription drugs, polluted air... A slow murder is legal, but a
fast one isn't.
After all, a
step by step death is considered “natural” while a fast one
causes reactions like “what a pity, he was so young”.
Kill them
softly, the rich club is waiting for you.