Smoking

Smoking Part I: P1: The FDA wants to stop teens from smoking before they start. P2: Three million youngsters smoke now. P3: The smoking rate among eighth-graders has jumped 50% since 1991. P4: This will not stop on its own. P5: Tobacco company marketing and recently released internal memos show the industry takes teens into its calculations. P6: A Philip Morris 1981 memo worried it would "suffer more than other companies from the decline in teen-age smokers". P7: …

…smoke, we must fight back now, before it is too late. While it is ethically moral for us to "save our children" from the dangers of smoking, and prevent them from smoking unlawfully, we cannot do so at the expense of millions of adults. When alcohol was prohibited, it proved to be an enormous mistake. Now imagine what it would be like if cigarettes were banned, with the 50 million adult smokers already addicted to them.