If you had to ban alcohol, smoking, or gambling, which one would you pick?

I'm currently working on a research paper and I'm having difficulty finding an answer to this question.

So, if you had to ban alcohol, smoking (just tobacco), or the proliferation gambling which one would you pick?

Your answers in the poll are much appreciated and will help steer me the in right direction for my paper.

Also, please feel free to discuss it and elaborate on why you chose what you did. Any and all ideas are helpful for me.

Thanks a bunch guys!

Most likely smoking because I can't stand the smell/taste of the air when people smoke.

I wouldn't want to ban any, because the substances they involve are impossible to control. Prohibition has alreay failed with alcohol, and its not like growing tobacco is difficult, it can be grown anywhere.

Gambling is even more impossible. How do you ban gambling? You might as well ban television.

But I guess of those...smoking...

I dont have a problem with any of them as long as there done responsibly. but i voted for alcohol because smoking would be the new alternative. :D

Smoking.

Smoking. Gambling is fine so long as you dont let it take over your life, and alcohol is harmless if you're sensible about it. There are pretty much no upsides to smoking.Ninja-Hippo

[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]Smoking. Gambling is fine so long as you dont let it take over your life, and alcohol is harmless if you're sensible about it. There are pretty much no upsides to smoking.-xPANICx-

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[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]Smoking. Gambling is fine so long as you dont let it take over your life, and alcohol is harmless if you're sensible about it. There are pretty much no upsides to smoking.Engrish_Major

Tough choice. All of them can be bad habits and can ruin your life.. I'm gonna have to go with.. smoking, because to me it seems more hazardous to people.

The one with the highest death toll.

Alcohol. Smoking and Gambling don't kill others when the user is driving a car fastesttruck

[QUOTE="fastesttruck"] Alcohol. Smoking and Gambling don't kill others when the user is driving a car YouAmStupid

Gambling. Just never cared too much for it, and have had a friend who was really addicted to it.

It's possible to drink responsibly, and small amounts of alcohol can have a good effect.

Gambling is fun as long as you don't over-do it. And in some cases, what's considered gambling is actually skill-based.

Tobacco... if I have to choose, that's the one I'd ban. It's always unhealthy, doesn't matter how little you use. It's the "drug" that kills the biggest amount of people.

With that said, I'm against any ban. Changing things now would only lead to chaos and black-market sales.

[QUOTE="YouAmStupid"][QUOTE="fastesttruck"] Alcohol. Smoking and Gambling don't kill others when the user is driving a car Deihjan

Smoking. Hate the smell.

Well, none of them since black markets would immediately spring up (the 18th amendment resulted in the infamous mobs of Chicago in the 20's). However, I think many people underestimate the damage gambling can cause. I still can't believe many states (including my own) use the lottery to raise money.

Cigarettes. Those things smell terrible. :x

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[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"]Smoking. Gambling is fine so long as you dont let it take over your life, and alcohol is harmless if you're sensible about it. There are pretty much no upsides to smoking.Engrish_Major

Smoking. I hate the smell so much.

Well tobacco kills more (in America at least) per year than alcohol does, and gambling does not screw with the body (directly), so I'll say tobacco.

I can't stand the smell of cigarettes. There's downsides to all three, but smoking is probably the worst.

Easy - I would ban smoking.

1. tobacco 2. drinking (huge gap) 3. gambling gambling doesnt physically hurt anyone, just financially. if people are stupid enough to gamble away all their money, they deserve to be poor (or if they live in the US, live on the street). gambling is not addictive in the same way that smoking and drinking. you dont become PHYSICALLY addicted to it, so basically, banning gambling would just hurt stupid people (which is why i wouldnt have banned it) while not banning alcohol and tobacco would hurt UNFORTUNATE people.escapeoftheape

Gambling can be just as bad an addictiction as alcohol or smoking, and you don't have to be stupid to become addicted.

From a personal standpoint?

Smoking, easy.