re: #144 Decatur Deb

Some time ago I dug out a tobacco lobby paper prepared for the Czech government that made exactly that case. They were preparing anti-smoking legislation.

Talk about bad PR—a company extolling the benefits to society of their product by killing off people before they get old!

re: #143 iossarian

Of course there are lots of reasons to encourage people not to smoke. It’s suspiciously convenient the NHS found it too complicated to determine the costs.