[baddox]

How about nicotine? Granted, there have probably been people who steal cigarettes are steal other things to buy cigarettes, but I think it's a much smaller problem than with illegal drugs.

[jlgreco]

If COPS is representative of real life, there are plenty of people willing to rob convenience stores of cigarettes. I have little doubt that this would turn much uglier if nicotine was banned.

[dragonwriter]

> If COPS is representative of real life

Its not. Its representative of what its producers think will appeal to its target market.

[jlgreco]

Of course. In reality 50% of all corner store robberies don't end with the shop owner beating the crooks ass with a broom. ;)

[shawn-furyan]

I've worked in an in an institution where cigarettes were prohibited for certain patients and not for others. Cigarette theft was very, very common.