Sweet Lies About Kids and Smoking

Your points are well taken, but the fact remains, and I should have pointed this out, that unless we ban ALL hazardous items from society we ought to assume that some hazards must necessarily remain-and smoking to my mind, while not appealing to me in the least, is nothing like the risks one assumes in skydiving, for example. But I'm not going to agitate for a ban on skydiving just because I'd never jump out of a perfectly good airplane!

I would submit that peer and cultural pressure have likely done more to lower smoking rates than anything the Govt could come up with, including a ban. I'm all for kids never starting the habit in the first place-but that issue ought be between them and their parents.

I have never...