Jacob Sullum – författare

From Simon & Schuster, For Your Own Good is Jacob Sullum exploration of the anti-smoking crusade and the tyranny of public health.The tobacco controversy is usually portrayed as a battle between selfless defenders of public health and greedy merchants of death. In For Your Own Good award-winning journalist Jacob Sullum argues that such a view conceals the true nature of the crusade for a smoke-free society.

The nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naïve national media have exaggerated the public''s fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs. Jacob Sullum goes beyond the debate on legalization or the proper way to win the "war on drugs," to the heart of a social and individual defense of using drugs. Saying Yes argues that the all-or-nothing thinking that has long dominated discussions of illegal drug use should give way to a wiser, subtler approach exemplified by the tradition of moderate drinking. Saying Yes further contends that the conventional understanding of addiction, portraying it as a kind of chemical slavery in which the user''s values and wishes do not matter, is also fundamentally misleading.