The Future of Tobacco

To save smokers’ lives, America must reject its prohibitionist anti-smoking movement

Jacob Grier
Arc Digital
Published in
22 min readSep 4, 2020

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“Smoking kills. Quit now.” There was no missing the blunt warnings plastered on the cartons of Marlboro cigarettes as the flight attendants half-heartedly paraded the duty-free cart down the aisle of my plane to Switzerland. In case the message wasn’t clear, graphic photographs drove it…

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Jacob Grier
Arc Digital

Portland-based writer covering public policy and other vices. Author of The Rediscovery of Tobacco and Cocktails on Tap. www.jacobgrier.com