There's also some evidence that smokers die earlier and are less of a burden on the health services than non smokers. I mean it's a terrible reason to support smoking, but I kind of support your viewpoint. I don't think there are any smokers out there anymore who don't know it's bad for you. Though I would never ask to go backwards in terms of where we arrived at now - packs with warnings and no indoor smoking is a great thing.
> I don't think there are any smokers out there anymore who don't know it's bad for you
I suspect this is not necessarily the case in countries with less public health education, especially developing or poor countries which is where Tobacco has shifted its efforts to grow or maintain revenue.
nah... as a smoker, i can tell you it's damned clear that it's bad for you when you wake up in the morning. there's no internal dialogue telling you "maybe this isn't bad for me".
there's an external dialogue though, for sure... "it's more/less bad than you think"
