Cigarettes Should Be Banned In The 1920's

America has had an unsuccessful history of attempting to ban or outlaw social ills that were questionable; the biggest example of such a failure would be the prohibition imposed on alcohol. Early 1900’s the fad for parties and drinking were gaining speed; around the 1920’s drinking had gotten out of control so legislation decided to pass an act called the Volstead Act. The act regulated the sale, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol, while local laws intended to prohibit just the possession of such goods. For the most part, the law did prohibit public consumption, it encouraged organized, criminal activity. This relates to cigarettes in the same sense that the prohibition attempted to stop the masses of people from drinking, a prohibition on cigarettes would attempt to stop the masses whom participate in the smoking of cigarettes. If cigarettes were outlawed in public, the same underground rings, or speakeasies, that were so prominent in the 1920’s would be formed.