With the proposed increased tax, a pack of cigarettes in New York City will be as high as $12.00. For the pack a day smoker, the monthly cost of 336.00 could be adversely life changing. Yet I believe that most adults, even those in financial distress will continue to support...

To psychiatrists the term DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL is noted everyday. Big tobacco also practices this faulty mechanism. Think of the Marlboro man astride his mount or from decades past, white coated physicians with a lighted Camel in hand. Tobacco's effective advertising leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly is...