People who suck on cigarettes obsessively are about the biggest suckers in the world. No, you do not enjoy them, because if you did, then you'd have enjoyed your first puff, and I have never met nor heard of anyone who honestly found their first puff pleasant. You don't like them, you need them. You need them because you are a drug addict, duped into persisting with that unpleasant behavior by either friends or advertisements until you became one. No, they don't make you feel good, they don't even elevate you to the level of feeling normal. Ask anyone who has managed to finally kick the habit after years of smoking, they'll tell you that normal feels much better than the relief nicotine brings to the addicted. Even so, they will usually carry some craving for cigarettes to their graves. Heroin addicts have said it is easier to kick heroin than to kick nicotine. And how poor do you suppose you'd be today if you'd put every dollar spent on cigarettes since you were twelve or whatever, (few people beyond the age of sixteen ever take up smoking to the point of addiction), into savings ?

No, your smoking is not just your business either. It fouls the air in the non-smoking section of restaurants, most rooms of motels, rental cars, dance halls, in just lots of places I'd like to go without smelling the stench. The diseases you impose upon yourself alone, not to mention the ones imposed upon those around you, increase medical insurance for all of us. I heard the other day that diseases caused by other people's smoking kills 40,000 people a year. That's nearly the number we lost in the entire Viet Nam War ! There is even some evidence that nicotine dims the minds of children born of smoking mothers, and in a society such as ours, we all have to suffer the consequences of your demented children.

No, it is not a part of our legitimate agricultural industry. It is just another bunch of dope pushers preying upon the young and ignorant.

So, although I will defend to the death your right to buy, sell, or advertise cigarettes, and to smoke them in your home, car, or even on the streets downwind from me, (though not in National Forests), I believe that for the American government to subsidize any recreational drug industry (including alcohol) would be a failure in our leadership responsibility and send a false message to the American public that these drugs are somehow "ok and safe". Hence:

Drug Law #1.

All federal subsidies to the tobacco industry, or to any state that offers such subsidies, will end immediately.

Drug Law #2.

All federal subsidies to the alcohol industry, or to any state that offers such subsidies, will end immediately.  (2011 update:  I think these may also be obsolete.)