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For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, by Jacob Sullum (Free Press, 338 pp., $25)

IN my 16 years as a regular smoker, I’ve quit twice. It’s a filthy habit that takes years off your life (three to seven, on average) and degrades your health in the meantime. And I’ve gone back twice, because nicotine is a wonderful drug, and cigarettes perhaps the best drug-delivery device known to man.

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For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, by Jacob Sullum (Free Press, 338 pp., $25)

IN my 16 years as a regular smoker, I’ve quit twice. It’s a filthy habit that takes years off your life (three to seven, on average) and degrades your health in the meantime. And I’ve gone back twice, because nicotine is a wonderful drug, and cigarettes perhaps the best drug-delivery device known to man.