First of all, this is hypothetical. I’m not going to hold you to your answer if it actually happens.
Assume that cigarettes (or tobacco in general) becomes an illegal drug where you live. Emigrating to another place where it is legal is not an option (it also becomes illegal in any place you can reasonably move to).
By “smoke” I mean use tobacco products in general.
What would you do?
you forgot the most important option: get government money for making bullshit public service announcements entitled “this is your brain on nicotine”. The lies will not spread themselves for free.
I think this falls under “…and I would welcome it.”
I would jump for joy…I welcome it.
I don’t smoke, and would welcome it. Of course I don’t typically interact, even by happenstance, with people who smoke, so it wouldn’t really affect my life.
I would welcome the lack of cigarette smoke, but as it is, there are already only about three people in the state of Montana who smoke, so I already have that lack. So it wouldn’t really make much difference to me.
I would be happy that I wouldn’t have to curse at people who throw butts out of car windows or just toss them on the sidewalk.
One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing cigarette butts littering the ground. As for the smoke itself. I don’t really go enough places that allow smoking for it to bother me.
I don’t smoke, but since I work in a prison, I’d be unhappy about the increased workload due to all the new incarcerations for nicotine drug crimes.
What about quitting aids, like the patch or nicotine gum?
I’d quit <which I’m kinda doing right now anyway> because as a regular habit it’s not worth getting busted for, and, as a regular habit, would absolutely get me busted. Tobacco’s not worth it as a once-in-a-while thing; it’s a habit, not a pleasure.
But pot, well, that’s different. That IS a pleasure, even if I only partake every decade or so anymore. THAT I would still do. So legality doesn’t have a LOT to do with it, but it does tend to weed out those things that are really not important or worth it.
I don’t smoke but I’ve only been off it since the beginning of Feb.
Honestly? I’d be most worried about the tax revenue lost from cigarettes. I’d then also be worried about all of the new crime that comes from it.
I would work to repeal the laws. I would not do anything illegal, though - it’s not THAT important.
I see what you did there.
I don’t smoke, apart from the very occasional poker-night cigar. There’s really nowhere I go where smokers affect my life now that bars and restaurants are smoke free. I’d have no problem giving up the cigars I do smoke, and such a change would be unnoticeable to me for all practical purposes, so I voted meh.
I voted “I don’t smoke, and meh,” but in fact I’d probably become involved in efforts to repeal the law.
grow tomacco
I don’t smoke, but I would actively (and legally) oppose the law as beyond the scope of what I expect my government to do.
Other.
I’d quit, but not “happily”, and not because smoking is against the law, but because the price would be so high that I couldn’t afford to smoke.
“I don’t smoke. Meh.” Yes, personally it would be nice to not have to smell the damned stuff. But we know from history how this story turns out already. I wouldn’t get involved in tobacco smuggling since I do disapprove of the stuff (and disapprove of getting shot at even more), but there would be such a black market and there would be a surge in violent & organized crime.
This. I used to smoke, and it was hard to quit. But I still have the absolute right to kill myself slowly. I will actively oppose any politician who brings this up.
I also think drugs should be legal.