Was watching a documentary about steroids and it made me wonder why they are so frowned upon in a sports enviroment.

A few facts about steroids.

There is no evidence they are harmful to user, an easy example would be deaths related to steroids. By year to year basis a person who dies from smoking out numbers those who die from steroids by hundreds of thousands to one, but those who smoke arent outlawed from a sport. In 2007 only 3 people died from steroid use where as over 400,000 died from smoking, almost 100,000 from alchohol.

If steroids arent dangerous (they are just hormones) why are they illegal from sport? 

Shouldnt a person who had a hip replacement be accused of cheating? or any who had a body augmentation or 'fix' so to speak. How many take some kind of supplement when competing in there sport, im betting close to 100% of participants.

Im not advocating the use of steroids, one way or the other, just interested in pereption. 

Lets put the argument a different way, steroids essentially are hormone/testosterone ehancements. Each person is built differently, one person purely down to genetics will have greater strength than another (many animals are bred the same way) so why is it illegal for any person to take an additive to (somewhat equall) the playing field?

If a person with downs or another serious debilitation, and they came up with a drug that completely cured said ailment, should he be outlawed from competing in a sport because they are taking this drug? how is it different from taking a steroid?

?? In which world aren't they harmfull?? liver problems, heart problems, Manboob creation.. No one should take the risk of developing Man boobs just because they are in a competitve sport..

There is no evidence to DIRECTLY link steroids to mortality rates. Yes they may have side effects such as the ones you describe, but have you ever read the back of a pack of aspirin? the amounts of side effects they can cause? 

Who said anything of people dying?
They may not be dead yet but studies have shown people will have problem when using steriods over time
Those are not side effects like when using aspirin..

9 out of 10 bodybuilders have kidney problems
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141202.htm

and their hearts aren't working like a healty one
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100427171802.htm

let me ask you this: would you let your child use steroids if (s)he asked for it?

I would really advise you against taking steroids.

Armstong got cancer from doing roids

Not if I could help it, but I have been conditioned to know steroids are bad. Am I right? thats what im debating. But still as far as I know they are bad, so I would stop them if I could. Would I take them myself, probably if I wanted to improve myself for something specific.

There any evidence to support that claim?

I've never heard of a coach pushing a teenager to have a hip replacement as a competitive advantage.

Really, though, the negative side effects of abusing anabolic steroids can be pretty nasty. They can ultimately destroy the human body over a long period of time. It's even worse if it's a teenager taking them and you know that would happen if professionals are allowed to use.

If that's not enough, I've got one name for you: Chris Benoit.