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...negotiating table, Washington enjoys the upper hand. "On this case the U.S. is right," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, voicing a widely held judgment among economists. Still, no one can deny that the U.S. zealously protects its domestic sugar, peanut and tobacco industries, among others. U.S. farmers retain considerable political power themselves: one of their lobbies reportedly twice foiled a GATT deal just as the two sides had come close to an agreement...
...Singapore have demonstrated, tough laws and peer pressure can fast reduce the smoker from a sophisticate to a social pariah. Throughout Europe and Asia, a growing body of laws, policies and guidelines is confining smokers to ever smaller zones. In January, France will prohibit all tobacco advertising. And in the developing countries of Asia, a mounting awareness of the ill effects of smoking is prodding governments...
...surprisingly, Singapore is striving to become the world's first smoke- free city. In this socially engineered ministate, where smoking has been under assault for two decades, cigarettes are strictly banned in nearly every public place, vending machines are outlawed, and tobacco companies are not allowed to sponsor public events. To tame the 16% of the adult population that still smokes, the government may even end the practice in bars...
According to the American Cancer Society (who cite the Massachusetts Bureau of Health Statistics), smoking costs taxpayers in Massachusetts $1.5 billion each year--for medical costs and lost productivity due to tobacco-related illnesses. The majority is thus paying for the effects of the smoking engaged in by the minority. Does the majority not then have the right to attempt to curtail this activity...
...must add that I am astounded by the high number of intelligent people here at Harvard who smoke. Tobacco-related diseases kill many more Americans in a year that do AIDS, suicide, homicide, fires, car accidents, heroin, cocaine and alcohol combined, according to the American Cancer Society. If you sing, smoking is detrimental to your voice; if you are on the Pill, smoking is dangerous and stupid. It is in all of our best interests, smokers and non-smokers alike, for people not to smoke...