Chijere Chipeta

Thanks for visiting the blog and sharing your comment.

It seems you are making a utilitarian argument in favor of tobacco. That is, the cost of potential slow death from poverty of some tobacco farmers in Africa, as you put it, somehow outweighs the cost of slow death of smokers. I am not sure how this utilitarian calculus can be justified.

Poverty is not just the problem of some tobacco farmers in Africa but of many other people across the world and smoking, a health hazard, is not a measure for poverty alleviation.

Regards

Usman