Today i had debate and the topic was about "MARKETING TOBACCO SHOULD BE ILLEGAL IN MALAYSIA". I was the opposing the idea to make it illegal and it was an awesome debate because i had some cool points to argue. Here are some of my debating points which made the illegal party speechless ahahaha.

Marketing tobacco should be legalized in Malaysia
According to Article 5 of the Federal Constitution, it gives the freedom of liberty to individual in Malaysia. So freedom of liberty defines as freedom of a person of doing something. Thus, if the constitution has given the rights of liberty, so why tobacco should be illegalized since the individual are interested in it
No point making it illegal because people will start illegal activities to distribute tobacco around the country. For example, in the 1989, the government of United States wanted to prohibit drug but according to John C. Lewis, a former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the repeal of Prohibition resulted in a huge increase in the use of drug. To be sure, prohibition failed to eliminate drug, and it produced a black market. Furthermore. Legalization would increase the supply of tobacco, and the illegal supplier would lower their prices and sell them within the economic reach of more people.
People are wise enough to know that smoking is bad and harmful to human life. So, if a person is not concern about his health, then nobody can stop them. People start smoking because of the step which they own self choose. Of course its arguable that some people start smoking because they are influence by friends or surrounding circumstances, but coming back to my point, people choose to smoke by making the first step and I will not agree that inducement from a friend is a factor of smoking because people are wise enough to know their stand.
By making it illegal, it will not reduce the amount of smokers but it will help to contribute in the raise of smokers because they becomes eager to try it since smoking is a culture adopted by celebrities. For instance, if at all the Parliament manage to make tobacco illegal in Malaysia, of course the future generations would not know about tobacco or they would not have the chance to try tobacco. But by watching movies or advertisement, they would have the curiosity to know how tobacco tastes like because most celebrity in movies uses tobacco as a style or as a tool to release tension. So by watching those acts, the future generations will have curiosity and this will lead to the raise of smokers.
Legalizing marketing tobacco in Malaysia will provide the local people the chance of working and earning for their family. This will prevent poverty.
Those are some of my debating points, hope u enjoyed it. I dont support smoking in real life but since its a debate i have no choice to support. So, ladies and gentleman's out there please dont do drugs.