http://www.forces.org/writers/kjono/pdf/tfw222.pdf
Read the anti-tobacco playbook above. The leftists in anti-tobacco don't even believe the SHS nonsense themselves. It's almost comical to listen to supposed "conservatives" defend other people's junk science and social engineering when the people spewing it know they are lying
I almost feel sorry for them. They are just the unwitting victims of a billion dollar PR campaign. There are some people on FR (and local public serpents in state legislatures) who either still believe they are dying because their roommate in college smoked or they hung out at Fraternity parties where people were smoking. More likely they are just too pigheaded to admit that it doesn't even pass the LAUGH TEST, they are not sick and will live to be 98 despite having spent their entire youth in smoky bars.
Can we please move past that nonsense and discuss why the former SG/AZ day spa employee would think people were stupid enough to believe the press releases? And how they will they use social engineering against obesity and drinking?
Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking, the War on Drugs hasn't stopped people from using drugs, Anti-smokers will never stop people who want to smoke.
I don't know why we even concern ourselves with their ranting and raving. They are a lost cause in pursuit of another lost cause.
It will be their personal habits that get regulated and legislated next.
As for my choices, I will simply not obey their smoking and eating regulations. What are they going to do? Throw a 67 year old man in jail for lighting up a cig or his pipe? Ask me politely not to smoke in your presence and I will submit to your request. But, don't make any demands of me. Their rights end when they start stepping on mine. As far as I am concerned, I have every right to smoke.