For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health [Paperback]

From Simon & Schuster,For Your Own Goodis Jacob Sullum exploration of the anti-smoking crusade and the tyranny of public health.

The tobacco controversy is usually portrayed as a battle between selfless defenders of public health and greedy merchants of death. InFor Your Own Goodaward-winning journalist Jacob Sullum argues that such a view conceals the true nature of the crusade for a smoke-free society.Jacob Z. Sullum is a syndicated newspaper columnist with Creators Syndicate and a senior editor at Reason magazine. He focuses most of his writings on shrinking the realm of politics and expanding individual choice