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The case against tobacco prohibition
Correspondence to:
Peter Hanauer, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, Suite J, 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702, USA; pete.hanauer@no-smoke.org
Received 24 October 2008
Accepted 6 November 2008
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Despite great strides by the tobacco control movement in recent years, both in reducing the percentage of smokers and in dramatically increasing the number of smoke-free workplaces and public places throughout the world, advocates are understandably frustrated that, 45 years after the 1964 US Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, millions of people continue to die each year from smoking-related diseases worldwide. Some advocates have concluded that it is finally time to consider the nuclear option—a prohibition on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes. While we all share the frustration, in the United States, at least, such a move towards prohibition is misguided, for both political and practical reasons.
Prohibition should be rejected in the US primarily because is politically unfeasible. It is simply inconceivable that the same Congress that could not write a bill giving regulatory authority over tobacco to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) without tobacco
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