A Historical Perspective on Smoking Bans

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A credentialed historian tells us the history of smoking bans, and it isn’t pretty!
Puritanical impulses are nothing new. Tyrannical impulses are nothing new. Mob impulses, viciousness, and sadism are as old as is humanity. Superstition, hysteria, and trash science such as eugenics and its "lifestyle epidemiology" offshoot plague us as they have plagued societies in the near and far past. Please click the link below for an excellent historical overview of antitobacco fanaticism sent to us by Doctor Jeremy Richards.

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