We are even subject to people disposing of their cigarettes irresponsibly when watching our favourite films and TV shows
In the US, upwards of 30,000 deaths per year from CAD are caused by secondhand smoke
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If you could ask the exact lawmakers in charge of prohibition exactly what made their decision, these would be the most likely factors: The (then) unknown side effects of smoking weed, no precedent of proper taxation, resentment of immigrants and everything associated with them, as well as false comparisons to alcohol (which was also outlawed but legalized shortly after)
An oft-mentioned tale, for example, is the 1746 case of a man who, in an effort to save his drowned wife, inserted the stem end of his tobacco pipe into her rectum, covered the lit bowl with paper, and "blew hard" allegedly reviving her