"I am not now and never have been a smoker, I don't like being in smoky rooms, and I impress on my kids (one of whom has asthma) the health risks of using tobacco. But contemporary opposition to smoking goes far beyond prudence about health risks. At some point it turned into a moral crusade. American society has been gripped by the conviction that smoking is not just unhealthy, but immoral; not just a poor health choice but a shameful failing. Cigarette smokers have been transformed into modern outcasts, shunned and ostracized lest they corrupt the rest of us.
What explains this?"
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