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In reply to the discussion: Bill proposed in Oregon would make cigarettes prescription-only drugs [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)difficult for people to get a hold of their first cigarettes. Plus it will require smokers to see doctors fairly regularly. Since they face health risks the rest of us don't face, that could improve the quality of their lives, even lengthen their lives, and maybe save very expensive healthcare costs for serious diseases.
Also, Oregon would develop an anonymous and large database of smokers that could be studied without invading the privacy of people. That way we could really determine what the effects of smoking are on health. That has been a topic of controversy for a long, long time.
This law could further scientific study.
No one is suggesting outlawing smoking. They just want cigarette purchases to be by a doctor's prescription. Why not?