Before & After

Before

Each year in the United States, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. For many years now tobacco has been well known to be a killer of people and our goal as a society should have been to eradicate it. It is staggering to think that our governments which are sworn to protect us would allow us to buy products that are scientifically proven to kill us. Unfortunately the multi-billion dollar tobacco industry is very powerful and is able to keep our elected leaders in line with their money, so smoking continues to be a huge public health problem.

It is no longer disputed that smoking tobacco is a health hazard which causes millions of deaths around the world each year. It is an unbelievable travesty that tobacco companies have been allowed to continue the business of killing people for so many decades by using the corrupt political system to ensure their survival and continued financial success. The losers in all this are the millions of people who are coerced into a tobacco habit with cigarette advertising and become dependent on tobacco for the nicotine addiction. The majority of smokers recognize their addiction and the health problems they suffer because of it and would happily stop smoking if it didn't have such a powerful grip on them. The daily stress in people's everyday lives combined with the withdrawal symptoms of trying to break the habit make it really difficult for the majority of smokers to stop.

After

In Nutopia there is no tobacco available so no one can use it and become addicted or suffer from tobacco related illness. Tobacco users who become citizens of Nutopia are entered in to an Addiction Recovery Program to end their addiction. While it is still hard to end an addiction of nicotine, the lack of everyday stress in Nutopia combined with the fact that tobacco cannot be used means that a successful adjustment to a life without nicotine is certain. Mandatory Health Checkups and the penalty system also ensure that no one can be a tobacco user in Nutopia. For young people, it is hard to crave something if you have never seen it, used it, or been incessantly advertised to by companies, so the problems associated with tobacco are nonexistent in Nutopia.