Why all this animosity on smoking? Arent there more important causes concerning liberty out there?
When talking about liberty, all causes are important, and it has been said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We know that the war on smoking has deep implications so deep, in fact, that they tend to go unnoticed by the uninformed person, who represents the vast majority. Beyond the infringement of the sacrosanct freedom of choice lays a serious institutional problem. The fundamental problem consists in the state (in this case represented by the health institutions) divulging statistical and scientific fraud and then using them as bases for laws to impose behaviour, and going as far as considering behaviour as disease.
