Tobacco??

Making tobacco completely legal is a bad idea. Unlike the cases involving drugs like marijuana that can help some people medicinally, tobacco is not used to treat any sort of clinical problem. As it is right now, there is no explanation or reason for the widespread acceptance or use of tobacco, and yet our society seems to condone it. There are no health benefits related in any way to nicotine, the main drug in cigarettes and tobacco. In fact, the health of society is at stake because of the risks of secondhand smoke and polluting chemicals given off by the smokers. From a money standpoint, the tobacco industries are acquiring an absolutely huge fortune on the addictions of a countless number of people daily. The saddest of all is that the government issues its Surgeon General Warning and then sits back while a vast majority of people ruin their lives as a result of a poor decision and the deception of the tobacco companies. I agree with people that say it is their right to smoke to a certain degree. Yes, they have the right to ruin their own lives if they so choose, but not those of the others around them in society. To give these people complete control of wherever they choose to smoke seems way too much of a compromise in the wrong direction. The general public does not need to cater to the demands of people who smoke and should not have to deal with their dirty habit. At least avoiding it as much as possible by having them smoke in certain areas seems reasonable because they are using their supposed "right" to smoke, and they are bothering other people in the least way as possible.

http://www.con-suming.com/Tobacco/should_tobacco_be_legal.htm
http://www.kaieteurnews.com/2009/05/10/tobacco-legal-but-deadly/