If I read this aright, they all became smokers??? I don't believe that.
I quite a long time ago - so long ago, the smoke is at worst an irritant. I'm really happy to have non-smoking sections in restaurants (sections where the smoke doesn't even creep in, unlike the poorly-designed ventilation in some places), but frankly the extreme prohibitions coming down lately disturb me a lot, for all that I "enjoy" the results. (A beloved relative is such a heavy smoker that even midwinter we close the vents, open the windows and block the doorway space -- only to get gassed in the morning anyway.)
We're selling our rights down the river in this country, for all sorts of stupid causes, and if there is ever a "Smokers' Rights" organization formed I might just sign up -- I may not especially like the exercise of this right (unless it's kept downwind), but if the line isn't drawn here it will have to be drawn somewhere else.
Or maybe we go with the flow, once we have total control, and make liberalism a capital crime. (Don't want to go there either -- got too many friends on the left.)
"Virtually every teen girl interviewed" probably was edited down by a crunchmaster/editor from "virtually every teen girl who had become a smoker that was interviewed.." The article listed the per cent of teen girls smoking.
There are more than a few, and we promote the rights of a business owner to choose his/her clientele. It has nothing to do with the rights of anyone to be smoking anywhere......it's a fight for property rights and against the misappropriation of legitmate science to "justify" a political agenda.