Alan Pons - Opinion essay

Should the government make tobacco and alcohol illegal?

Like you should know, substances like cocaine, marijuana or heroin are completely illegal. These substances are dangerous to the consumer's health and it can kill him. But, if you think it quietly substances like tobacco and alcohol are legal, even if they are dangerous to consumer's health. Which kind of hypocrisy is this? Should the government make tobacco and alcohol illegal?

On one hand, alcohol and tobacco are similar to the other substances in the addictive fact. All this substances cause addiction and it could make you depend on it, some people finished without money, living in the streets, being sad and alone.

Furthermore, substances like tobacco and alcohol are annoying to the people around consumers. When people smoke, they let tobacco's smoke go, and some people around there breathe this smoke, making them passive smokers. Drunk people are usually different from themselves, being more violent and aggressive.

On the other hand, the tobacco and alcohol's factory are a good way of regulation to these substances' traffic, and is a good source of income to the government. It prevent from clandestine products' dangers and illegal traffic.

In short, the government should make tobacco and alcohol illegal, this will result in a health improvement of population and people will have more money to invest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoins (or they can use it in food and first necessities).