Rebuttal Exercise

Dear Dr. Walter Williams,
As I began to read your “Nazi Tactics”, it became very clear your position on the government banning smoking, by comparing anti-smokers to Nazis. You wrote in 2002 in Ideas of Liberty that 40 million Americans smoke cigarettes, but do you know how many have quit? Or if any of them are legitimately addicted (par.4)? This claim just seems to be numbers with no information backing it up. You also state your concern about the “widely successful vilification of cigarette smokers and tobacco manufacturers”, but this is due to health care costs and concerns, not about just the pure hatred of cigarettes like you make it seem (par.5). These people are just looking out for the health of Americans now and in the future, and they have done plenty of research to know that this is of great concern. You claim “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”, just solidifies the fact that this isn’t over and second-hand smoke is a problem that we will have to face in the future (par. 7).