Question

Are corporations should be allowed to sell cigarettes. Explain in your own words.

Answer 1

No ,

The effects of smoking
Tobacco is the legal product which, used in
moderation and exactly as the manufacturer
intended, causes harm to the consumer.
About half a billion people alive today will
eventually be killed by tobacco if current smoking
patterns continue. By 2030, deaths from smoking
will be 10 million a year - one every three
seconds.
That cigarettes cause cancer has now been known
with certainty for 35 years. Yet the incidence of
smoking, and hence of deaths from lung cancer,
continues to increase across the world. There is
a common belief that there is an 'epidemic' of
death from cancer in developed countries. But the
cancer epidemic is really a smoking epidemic.
Take away the effects of smoking and cancer death
rates are, if anything, declining in Europe and
North America.
Even in those high-income countries where smoking
rates are declining among men, new smokers continue
to be targeted. The rise in the numbers of women
who smoke continues. And even those who have
never used tobacco have to suffer the well-
documented hazards of environmental smoke.

there are a number of practical measures
which could be implemented worldwide without delay:
- a worldwide ban on duty-free sales and imports of
tobacco
- warning labels on all packs sold throughout the
world in the language of the country where they will be sold

a system of marking cigarette packets to indicate
their origin and date of manufacture
- a ban on misleading statements on packets.
Finally, the treaty should provide a global
complement to national actions, and in no way
diminish or weaken any tobacco control programmes
already in existence.
We believe strongly that everyone in the world
today has the right to health. No one should be
condemned to disease and premature death simply
because it is in the economic interests of one
industry to cause them to become addicted to a
dangerous drug .