Review information on the harmful effects of various kinds of drugs at the site of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Go to https://www.samhsa.gov/Links to an external site.. Select “Topics” from the top nav bar, then select “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs” from the A-Z list. Consider what we know about the harmful effects of long-term tobacco use and the illness, injury, and death too often caused by alcohol abuse. Many more people die from the use of legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol than die from the use of illegal drugs.

Respond to the following: Why, then, are alcohol and tobacco legal while other drugs are illegal? Would you argue for making alcohol and tobacco illegal given their harmful effects? Why or why not?

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