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There are any number of things that give off poisonous fumes, from home heating to driving your kids to the park[1], at higher volumes and lower distances than cigarettes.

I abhor secondhand smoke too, and applaud legal constraints on where you can emit poisonous fumes, like smoking bans in enclosed spaces. But cigarette smoking is easily separable from the worst of its local air pollution effects, and unless you're willing to condemn even more harshly people who choose to live in the suburbs, this is a dishonest argument.

> How does this apply to the misinformation campaign waged by tobacco companies?

No argument here; this is the reason I'm no fan of tobacco companies. Though this is again a theoretically-separable evil from selling cigarettes per se.