By Joseph L. Bast
Within the sequence of articles that compose this small e-book, Joseph Bast makes use of good judgment, actual technology, and the (almost) misplaced artwork of severe considering to refute and debunk the outlandish claims and reviews made by way of anti-smoking fundamentalists and those that have chanced on nice gains in fueling the hysteria.
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But that image is incomplete. To determine whether smoking increases or decreases a person’s burden on society, we need to subtract from a smoker’s lifetime costs to society the amount that would have been spent if he or she had never smoked. Such a calculation reveals that smokers, by dying younger than non-smokers, actually save society billions of dollars in nursing home, Medicaid, Social Security, and private pension payments. 32 per pack of cigarettes smoked. Smokers also pay billions of dollars each year in taxes, a forced “contribution” that the politicians curiously fail to mention when blasting smokers.
The study’s original executive summary said racial preference programs stigmatized African-American students and caused increasing polarization on campus, and said diversity “quite simply ... ” Chetly Zarko, a freelance writer who acquired the original executive summary by filing Freedom of Information Act requests, described his pursuit of the truth in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The university still refuses to make available to other researchers the raw data used to produce the report or to explain why the version of the study’s executive summary now displayed on the university’s Web site says the opposite of the original.
For example, I don’t think it is particularly difficult to quit smoking (more than 25 million people have) or at least to cut back to safer levels. But if you say that in a public forum, people will act as if you broke the law or something. Maybe, in the near future, saying that will be against the law. How can we discover the truth if we aren’t allowed to say or read certain facts and opinions? What happens to our First Amendment right to free speech if newspapers and television programs refuse to present both sides of the story?