I definetely do not think under any circumstances that tobacco should be legal. Some donctors and researchers are said to believe that tobacco can help treat certain illnesses. However, i believe that even though it may temporarily relief people of symptoms, the long term effects are stil present. Tobacco has so many long term effects that a short term usage would only hurt you more. You could easily become addicted, which would have a tremendous impact on your life. tobacco would affect your personal health by making you more prone to lung cancer, emphysemia and other terrible diseases. Tobacco can also give you bad breath, shortness of breath, increased heart rate, yellowing of teeth and many other harmful conequences. tobacco would also affect your societal health by possibly causing you to come into poverty. Tobacco is very expensive when it all adds up. The cost of any form of tobacco after one becomes addicted increases tremendously. This factor would definetely put you lower in society and make it harder for you to get a job or to be taken seriously in the real world. The Legalization of tobacco would aslo greatly affect the government. The government could charge taxes on tobacco and the tobacco industries would also greatly prosper. This would be a good condition for these industries but terrible fo the health of americans. In conclusion, i definetely think that tobacco should NOT become legalized because there are way too many health detriments as consequences for this possoble occurence.