Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Life, liberty, pursuit of lighter

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, October 2, 2009

A day of reckoning has come to the smoking community. For decades, antismoking advocates have insisted that if only tobacco enthusiasts knew smoking was unhealthy, they would quit smoking. When warning labels didn’t work, the crusaders pushed for more direct labels. The next step was television commercials, followed by more and more graphic commercials, all illuminating the fictively recreated Truth of inevitable disease, decay and death. Yet somehow, to the astonishment of the anti-tobacco army, people continued to smoke.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act has now...

#1 By Anonymous 8:52p.m. on October 2, 2009

Cloves are for everyone.

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