US Surgeon General Richard Carmona
Here.
From 2004.
Excerpt:
Statistics indicate that more than 12 million Americans have died from smoking since the 1964 report of the surgeon general, and another 25 million Americans alive today will most likely die of a smoking-related illness.
And just in case mere life isn't enough, it costs money too:
According to the report, smoking kills an estimated 440,000 Americans each year. On average, men who smoke cut their lives short by 13.2 years, and female smokers lose 14.5 years. The economic toll exceeds $157 billion each year in the United States -- $75 billion in direct medical costs and $82 billion in lost productivity.
In 1917 they still put cocaine in Coca-Cola, but that stopped in 1929. Yet who is sticking up for the liberties of the cocaine user?
Cigarettes, on the other hand, you can still buy at the supermarket. Though not the Marine in Fallujah. Maybe he'll get lucky: someone will send him a lifetime's supply of Marlboros, and he'll die of heart disease at 35. Well. One out of two ain't bad.