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Thank you for smoking.

There are few industries quite as demonized as the tobacco industry today. It is not only considered acceptable but almost polite to demonize smokers, or to at least see them as little more then “addicts” in the grip of an awful deadly addiction to nicotine. The anti-smoking crowd has been very successful.

We’ve known for a long time – at least 100 years – quite possibly longer that smoking is harmful to health, especially on an aggregate fashion to the publics health. There is a clearly measurable impact on the rate of smoking compared to the rate of lung cancer deaths, heart attacks, emphazema. While it’s impossible to know if anyone’s dealth was caused by smoking and not a many factors such as poor diet, air pollution, the concetion obvious on a public health level, and there is a strong correlation and only sometimes strong evidence of causation on individual health.

Smoking is a pretty disgusting habitat, it smells bad, dirties your teeth and your lungs. Certainly don’t do it indoors or around others. It’s good to discourage smoking for public health, but I don’t love the idea of public shaming of smokers or tobacco makers. At the same time, I have very little tolerance of tobacco health impact deniers, nor those who claim that smokers are little more then those caught into a chemical addiction.