New post from me at Liberal Currents on how illiberal ideas broke the anti-smoking movement: "There was seemingly more contentious public debate over bans on Four Loko ten years ago than there is now about bans on e-cigarettes that can save smokers’ lives."
Respecting the Agency of Smokers: the Liberalism of Harms Reduction and the Illiberalism of Prohibitionism
In choosing to stigmatize smokers in order to reduce it as an activity, activists have shown a disturbing willingness to dehumanize the very people they’re seeking to help.
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