In last week´s Takimag, Dr. Dalrymple gives his readers his take on the latest ´Big Tobacco´ lawsuit from Canada and the moral culpability of the government and smokers themselves.

Thus, the principal financial beneficiary of smoking has in effect extorted money from the producer of that benefit, namely the tobacco industry. Whatever the misdeeds of the latter, this is a morally disgusting manner of proceeding, especially when the principal beneficiary was always in a position to prohibit smoking as it has now in part done.