Tobacco is a harder habit to break than cocaine addiction. Or heroin. This has been amply documented by medical studies.

State-sponsored support of tobacco is tatamount to legalizing drug addiction.

Smokers who are in a state of denial or addiction are not in a position to defend their bad habits when it impinges on thre rights of others to not have to breathe their second hand smoke. I'm glad the UK finally woke up on this issue and wish that the US would follow suit.

Fat chance, though because Bush and his cronies are not only tied into oil but also the tobacco industry.