We all know smoking is bad for smokers. Many believe smoking is also bad for society. They urge governments to take more and more steps to stamp out smoking.
That doesn’t make sense to Duke professor emeritus John Staddon, who offered his retort during today’s John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society presentation.
Click the play button below to view Staddon’s effort to debunk the notion that smoking generates social costs that merit government intervention.
4:25 p.m. update: Watch the entire 40:44 presentation by clicking the play button below.
You’ll find other John Locke Foundation video presentations here.
