Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes is bad. Everyone knows that smoking cigarettes increases your chance of lung cancer and other fatal illnesses because of the countless numbers of anti-smoking commercials and from the label that is printed on every single carton of cigarettes. Even though everyone knows of the potentially fatal consequences, many people still continue to smoke cigarettes. Because of the health risks that come with smoking, many people wish to see smoking cigarettes banned. However, even though smoking comes with incredible health issues, cigarettes should not be outlawed because if they were it would create an influx of harmless criminals, it would infringe the rights of the free man, and would cause an overall increase in medical expenses. If cigarettes were outlawed, millions of people would still continue to smoke, but they now would be considered criminals. In one article, Tony Newman (2012) writes that the ban of cigarettes would “find a whole range of collateral consequences” (para. 7). When there comes a high demand for a product, someone will become the supplier. With the ban of cigarettes, a whole new black market will emerge. People would have to go to private dealers in dangerous dark alleyways, gangs will emerge, and awful crimes such as murder will become more apparent. Like current illegal drugs, people will continue to smoke cigarettes even if it is prohibited. Banning cigarettes will only further worsen the current losing war on drugs. Police officers will use their time and the tax payer’s money to have to hunt for the new addicts. Then the already overcrowded prisons will fill up even more with these criminals to an even more dangerous amount. Some state prisons have tried to prohibit cigarettes, but smoking still continues to grow with constant trading of illicit cigarettes. The black market continues to fill the void that leads to unnecessary deaths over access and inflated products (Ne