Smoking has been one of the hot controversies of our time.
Many people find tobacco smoke annoying, smelly, and just plain dirty and unpleasant.
Some smokers themselves agree. But today's smoking restrictions, not to mention the attack on smokers and extortion of tobacco companies, could not have been engineered simply on the grounds that tobacco smoke is unpleasant. We needed another reason. A carcinogen causing death and illness for tens of thousands of nonsmokers. In my book, these are indeed noble motivations, but they pale in comparison to a much more potent motivation for human action.