Wouldn a total ban induce smokers to quit smoking and the youth not to start?
What we have to quit is considering smoking as something that is always and only negative. That is scientifically false, and it leads to prejudice, superstition and social debilitation beyond the smoking issue. Smoking is a legitimate and legal choice as acceptable as eating, drinking or gambling. Second, we do not recognize to the state the right to regulate lifestyles, nor that of using taxation to force and pilot public behaviour. Third, propaganda and prohibition are either ineffective or force behaviour in directions that — differently than smoking — could be very negative.
