The Tobacco Industry
Smokers claim that smoking helps them relax and release stress, smoking has nothing positive, but harms human health. Smoking cigarette is linked to numerous negative effects that not only affects the health of smokers, but detriments the heath of people around them. Now let’s come to the point where, the Anti-smoking groups continue to push toward their ultimate goal to strip tobacco companies of their strong grip on consumers through politicians under their subjective influence, which leads to the restrictions of advertisements. If anti-smoking groups influence a more negative generalization of tobacco, that could lead to denying tobacco consumers and companies their basic rights as citizens. This topic is discussed in an article written by experienced Heartland Institute writer Joseph L. Bast titled: "Leave Those Poor Smokers Alone!" which discusses the topic of anti-smoking parties. Bast discusses in his article: "People are free to do things both great and foolish so long as they do not conflict with an equal right held by others. That focus on individual liberty is the reason we are the most prosperous and tolerant people in human history. …show more content…
Taking away inalienable rights to anyone for any reason, even if your reasons are for the safety of other citizens, is wrong. The ultimate goal that anti-smoking groups are imposing to achieve is to completely ban the production, the sale, and use of tobacco product in order to ensure the lives of billions of people across the world. While this goal may seem like an ultimate dream come true, the outcome could instead be dystopian for the