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Vaccine Mandates Are an Exploding Cigar

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Vaccine Mandates Are an Exploding Cigar
People protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers during a protest at Gracie Mansion in New York City on Oct. 28, 2021. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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The exploding cigar, often seen in cartoons, is the perfect metaphor for vaccine mandates. You remember the gag: A fat cat is offered a big stogie. After a few puffs, the cigar explodes, spreading soot all over the hapless victim’s face.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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