Tobacco

Tobacco is an addictive drug that has ruined the lives of numerous people, but it is still legal because of the monetary gain. If it were legalized, I beleive that many people would rebel against the law and use tobacco anyway creating even more problems. If we knew the health effects of tobacco before it became popular it could have been illegalized before everyone knew what they were missing. Now approximately 21 percent of US adult citizens smoke and the affects of illegalizing tobacco would be worse than tobacco being legalized. We all remember what happened during the prohibition, it was total chaos when they illegalized alcohol. I think that illegalizing tobacco would worsen the problem.