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Were We Right to Rage Against Cigarettes?

Were We Right to Rage Against Cigarettes?
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This column should probably be relegated to the pile of private thoughts that should never be published. But what the heck: it’s time for bluntness on all things. So I’ll just say it. I have doubts about the seeming success of the anti-smoking campaign. If all it achieved was an end to cigarettes, fine. But that’s not what happened.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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