Is tobacco currently illegal or has it ever been illegal in any country or region at any point in time?
If not, has any place done more than even half-heartedly consider it?
If I’m not mistaken, early in its non-American history tobacco was completely forbidden in Japan and in Russia, with extreme penalties for its use.
You can see how well that worked out.
Bhutan has banned the sale and importation of tobacco products. Didn’t several American states have bans on tobacco before WWI?
Constantinople in the early days, too:
http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/tobaccorefguide/ch4/ch4p10.htm
According to wikipedia “The plant was outlawed in Connecticut in 1650, but in the 1800s as cigar smoking began to be popular, tobacco farming became a major industry, employing farmers, laborers, local youths, southern African Americans, and migrant workers.”
Doesn’t Singapore ban smoking?
Not altogether, it’s just severely limited in public.
England & Scotland banned tobacco, starting about 1604.
King James I personally wrote “A Counterblaste to Tobacco”.
This concludes: "A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.’
I was going to say “Terribly on the ball, wasn’t old James?”, but then realised he also wrote a book on how one might go about finding and burning witches, so its a little hard to tell which one should attribute to foresight and which should be attributed to luck… 
The Catholic Church banned use of tobacco in 1590. The ban was instituted by Pope Urban VII and allowed for excommunication of anyone who “took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose”. Urban VII’s reign for only 13 days; I don’t know whether his ban survived beyond that.
Belmont, CA, could be the first jurisdiction in the U.S. to ban smoking virtually everywhere but inside single-family homes.
Amazingly, Singapore still allows smoking in bars. Ireland, however, is the first country ever to ban smoking in all enclosed public spaces, incuding pubs and even private clubs.
the Kingdom of Bhutan (in Asia) is the only country that has banned smoking.
Probably the USA in about 20 years, give or take.
How do ya figure? Tobacco is money here. There may be more and more restritions put on smoking in public places (as has been the trend in recent years), but that doesn’t in any way preclude continuing the sale of it.
Just wait until the anti-smoking people stop wasting their time wittering on about health issues and start emphasising its role as a gateway drug and the key role tobacco paraphenalia such as lighters and rizla papers plays in enabling drug-taking.
Singapore does not ban smoking. I am a singaporean, therefore i would know. If you go to a crowded area like orchard road you would see HORDES of girls puffing away. Another thing is that most people would think that we have laws and are strict, but during my secondary and jc days(somesort like a highschool), in all my classes there is AT LEAST one person who smokes and they even start as young as ten…