Intro exercise in class

“There are about 40 million Americans who smoke cigarettes” (par. 4). Fact paraphrase
While one out of five people in our country is a smoker (par.4), the wildest successful vilification” of them is hardly provable (par. 5). You claim that the government is “almost finished with smokers; but never in history has a tyrant arisen one day and then decided to tyrannize no more”. (par. 7) But the real tyrant here is the tobacco companies themselves

“As a result of both official and non-official fraudulent claims about the health effects, as well as the health-care costs of smoking, there has been widely successful vilification of cigarette smokers and tobacco manufacturers” (par. 5). Point of view

“These people who control our lives are almost finished with smokers; but never in history has a tyrant arisen one day and then decided to tyrannize no more” (par. 7).

Walter E. Williams’ essay “Nazi Tactics,” which claims that lawmakers who are outlawing secondhand smoke are discriminating against smokers in the same way the Nazis discriminated against Jews.
Where Freeman
Date august 2002

Dear Mr. Williams
In your essay “Nazi Tactics”, that was posted in the George Mason Freeman on August 2002, you tried to establish a relation between Anti Smokers and the Nazi empire in Germany. You stated that “As a result of both official and non-official fraudulent claims about the health effects, as well as the health-care costs of smoking, there has been widely successful vilification of cigarette smokers and tobacco manufacturers” (par. 5). People are trying to make it seem as smokers and tobacco manufacturers are the main villain or bad guy behind this world, but really the anti smokers are the ones that are removing the rights of the smokers in your point of view. Every person has a right that they can do what they want in the constrictions of the bill of rights, and smoking is allowed under these constrictions.