What Are People Saying About Ted King's Book?
Walter Williams, Ph.D
Theodore King has done a yeoman’s job
assembling evidence that the success of tobacco
zealots has become a useful template for those
who want to use health issues to control our
lives. The War on Smokers and the Rise of the
Nanny State is not only a story about the attack
on tobacco users but a story about how decent
Americans can be frightened, perhaps duped into
accepting phony science, attacks on private
property rights and rule of law. One need not be
a smoker to be alarmed by the underlying
hideousness of the anti-tobacco movement.
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Tucker Carlson
Government efforts to fight cigarette smoking
over the past 40 years amount to more than a
victory for public health. They are also, as Ted
King's new book makes clear, a cautionary tale
of how the state can bully, and ultimately crush,
members of a momentarily-unfashionable
minority group. Just because you don't smoke
doesn't mean you shouldn't be afraid.
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Jack Cashill
Ted King's enlightening and engaging book, The
War on Smokers and the Rise of the Nanny
State, has a compound title but a consistent
theme. The war on smokers has to be seen not
as an isolated bit of do-goodism, but as one front
out of many in the war on personal liberty. King
manages to strike just the right tone in sounding
the wake up call to his fellow citizens. He
delights in stripping away the Nanny drag and
showing the anti-smoking movement as the
embryonic monster it is.
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