What should government do about alcohol and tobacco?-Clara X.
People, from an early age is taught that drugs are bad and they damage our health, that is the reason why are illegal. However, knowing that, why are alcohol and tobacco legal?
First of all, to understand why those drugs are legal and the others do not, we have to know the difference between them.
Alcohol and tobacco are the unique drugs that are totally controlled by the government. Some other substances can have additives that can hurt you more than usual, unnecessary secondary effects.
Another reason is that these types of drugs are not as harder as others, they can be very addictive, but the damage is less than illegal drugs. Knowing that, governments made that drugs legal also due to the money they can earn in that industry.
Related to the point before, a big range of people smoke and drink alcohol. If those drugs were illegal, a lot of people would be tended to ignore the law or would be disgusted and that does not interest to the government, so, to be all happy, they made some drugs legal, not all of them, but the less damaging ones.
On balance, legal drugs are not as bad as the education made us think. Obviously, they damage our health, although, this legality has restrictions, thinking that people will consume those substances in a responsible way.
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