Experts increasingly contemplate end of smoking in U.S.

Sounds like a good idea to me !

The age should go up to 21, as lots of people don't get a brain to at least 21.

Really it should be band from a date.

When you think of it its just pure poison and the only reason why people do it, is for the feeling of getting a rush "to the brain" of . nigiten Its only because you need it, that you enjoy a smoke.

If you want to quit and are having trouble, i 100% recommend ""Champix"". Go to you DR's and get some for free in "AU". In other country's i have know idea what you gov covers. Its 100% worth it even if it cost you $250 for 3 months..

champix blocks the signal to your brain that nigiten makes you feel good "when you have 1". Smokes don't release stress, they make the stress making you want 1 / nigiten .

Make shore you take them 20 min after eating food, or you will get a sore gut for 10 min. They are so good you will be over smokes within 2 weeks. By 2 or 3 weeks you can drink coffee and not care less about a smoke. keep telling your self they are poison and taste that poison in your mouth. You know they are and you will 100% die if you don't stop.

I recently quit (again). Putting the first one in my mouth to look cool for the girls was the dumbest thing I've ever done bar none.

I think that there is a lesson here in terms of drugs. If a country wants to reduce or eliminate a the use of a drug, long-term education, legal action, and most importantly changing social attitudes works. When I was a kid (98% of smokers start before the age of 20), smoking was accepted. I'm really glad that's no longer the case.

“In our culture, we tend to think we have a right to things even if they’re terrible for us,” she(Ruth Malone) said."

Though I detest even the smell of cig-smell which hangs around a smoker after the fact, this woman seems oblivious to the fact that one's body belongs to oneself, and not to the leftist collective(liberals, really?) If you want to stuff your face with nothing but junkfood, that's your choice.

They could never walk away from the tax revenues.

Please god, yes. A thousand years from now, will people still be smoking this drug, or will they look back at this time as a time of utter insanity? Or, will there be no one to be looking back at all?

Come on Japan, please ban all smoking indoors. Make smokers pay for their own end of life diseases caused by smoking. No one can smoke now who is unaware of the dangers.

Give me the right to explore Tokyo and Japan's fabulous restaurants and izakaya without this damned health hazard. SO RUDE TO SMOKE!

you will 100% die if you don't stop.

You will 100% die anyway. But yes, restriction is still too lenient. The message from medical staff and educators is not clear enough. I know people that go to their cancer screening as prevention is important, blah blah... that they got it. When they got something, they did the op, chemo, etc. That's common sense. They take medications. But they keep smoking. They were told it's not good, but no so much. Why ? Well the doc makes $$$ with the screening, treatment... not much with prevention. They shouldn't tell patients : "You will die..." but "you are killing your lungs [whatever] NOW, and giving up smoking is your treatment. " more clearly. They should send them to some tobacco weaning clinics if they can't do it by themselves. Does that exist ? I don't think so. That shows that addiction is not taken as seriously as others.

less popular among teens than marijuana.

I find that argument incredible. So what is popular with teens should rule ? If they let marijuana take the vacant place of tobacco, in 15 years, we'll have the same discussion about it.

Anybody ever hear of something the US called "Prohibition?" It didn't work. Neither will banning cigarettes. And wishing them away isn't going to work either. If people want to smoke they will.

I hate being around smokers, smelling smoke, having my clothes smell like smoke, being forced to sit near smokers, having to walk past the cloud of smoke of the people gathered outside the nearest convenience store. It's bad for you, bad for me, bad for children, bad for the elderly, bad for everyone involved. That said - it should still be legal. People ought to be able to do whatever they like in the privacy of their own home. The way to make the world a better place is to bar it from all public areas - both inside and out - and to increase education and campaigns that put it in a negative light.

Cigs don't just affect the smoker, but everyone who inhales either the smoke or the smoker's ehalations. It's a filthy, disgusting habit and should be banned in all public places.

Here in the UK the government want to ban parents from smoking in cars where there are children. Good idea. When I was looking for a car last summer I turned down several purely on the fact that they smelled like ashtrays. God knows what the smokers' clothes were like.