The ‘Quit or Die’ Ideology
<div style="text-align: justify;">Decades ago, a virtually safe cigarette was under design by an imposing array of specialists in a coöperative effort between the US National Cancer Institute, and the tobacco industry. This effort was scuttled by burgeoning prohibitionism, which detests free choice and deplores the very concept of improving product safety, in preference for hatred of smoking heretics and a sick ideology of "quit or die."<br />
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