Thanks for writing this honest column. Yes, smoking is bad for your health, but, yes, many people also view it as sexy. You obviously have set off the anti-tobacco political correctness police in this column, but good for you. One of the great mistakes the anti-smoking movement has made, in fact, is the failure to understand why people smoke. The explanation is not as simple as "people have been snookered by the tobacco industry's ads". Native Americans used tobacco long before Madison Avenue dreamed up the Marlboro man. For many people, smoking latches on to something deep in human psychology, such as sexuality or transcendence. Anti-smokers don't understand this.
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Thanks for writing this honest column. Yes, smoking is bad for your health, but, yes, many people also view it as sexy. You obviously have set off the anti-tobacco political correctness police in this column, but good for you. One of the great mistakes the anti-smoking movement has made, in fact, is the failure to understand why people smoke. The explanation is not as simple as "people have been snookered by the tobacco industry's ads". Native Americans used tobacco long before Madison Avenue dreamed up the Marlboro man. For many people, smoking latches on to something deep in human psychology, such as sexuality or transcendence. Anti-smokers don't understand this.
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