Is it any surprise, then, that those who would put public sanitation and clean water at risk are now the leading proponents of climate change denial? Or that before embarking on this mission, Buchanan’s students and colleagues were producing economic analyses funded by the tobacco industry to discredit the “paternalists” who would deny cigarette companies, smokers, and those in their immediate surroundings their “voluntary choice” in a misguided “majoritarian” quest, pushed by “rent-seeking interest groups” whose “appeal to the ‘public’s health’ is essentially just political rhetoric designed
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