Blowing smoke
Tobacco is not, properly speaking, a social problem at all, but the growing anti-smoking movement is quickly becoming one
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This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline “Blowing smoke”
From the December 20th 1997 edition
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