The rallying cry of the anti-smoking crusade may be 'Save the Children.' But adults are the real target.

Mr. Sullum, a senior editor at Reason, is the author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (The Free Press).

'Every Day, Without Action on Tobacco, 1,000 Kids Will Die Early." So says the headline of an ad on the op-ed page of the New York Times, conjuring up images of fifth-graders dying from lung cancer, 12-year-olds keeling over with heart attacks in the cafeteria, and high-school sophomores with emphysema wheezing as they climb ...

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