If you, guest, honestly don't realize that smokers, who at their peak in US history represented nearly half of the population, are now down to about 10 to 20 percent depending on the locale, then do a little reading. It's really an interesting story of the triumph of science over profit, a story which is not only not often told, but rarely has the opportunity to be told.

Smokers are just pawns, as I said before, in a lucrative game played by tobacco industry executives who need to hook children to keep going.