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Ok, cigarettes are legal. Say I am a prominent professor at a university and I write an article about how I use cigarettes responsibly and how I'm not addicted
by umvi 6y ago
Ok, cigarettes are legal.
Say I am a prominent professor at a university and I write an article about how I use cigarettes responsibly and how I'm not addicted and that tons of people use cigarettes without getting addicted. I also note that it's a great way for me (and implicitly others) to find happiness. I then publish my article to influence millions.
So then what's wrong when critics say my article is dangerous and caution readers to take it with a grain of salt?
- sillysaurusx 6y agoMm, perhaps I should change my mind on this one. I suppose my root objection is that such warnings are incredibly boring, because everyone in the world knows that both heroin and cigarettes are dangerous. We're not living in the era of cigarette advertising; surgeon general's warnings are required by law. But that's a different sort of objection than the one I started with.