Talk about self-interest...

The Winston-Salem Journal actually believes that the tobacco industry should remain unregulated by the FDA. In an editorial dated October 29th, it describes the efforts to have a product that kills 450,000 Americans every year regulated like every other drug in the country as "wrongheaded government intervention".

So presumably it is also wrong to regulate other harmful (or potentially harmful) products like heroin, cars, airlines, medications and guns? These products kill far fewer than smoking but are rightly subject to regulation or prohibition because of their potential for harm.

It is morally and ethically bankrupt to put the business interests of drug dealers before the lives of their victims. I know Winston-Salem is in the heart of tobacco country but DON'T THEY GET IT? The Journal should be ashamed of itself...

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Smoking and the recession

According to research conducted by Harris on behalf of the American Legacy Foundation, low-income (defined as earning less than $35,000 a year) smokers are smoking more as a result of the recession. Nearly 40% of such smokers report smoking more as a result of the financial crisis.

The report is published at the same time as another worrying report - this one showing that one in four children in low-income smoking households don't have enough to eat. This figure is three times higher than in non-smoking households.

The clear implication here is that smokers are spending more on smokes, and less on food for their children.

It is at such times when you can see smoking for the unrewarding addiction it really is.

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