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Bowing to Their Own Pressure

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2005 3:43 PM

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Columbia Daily Tribune columnist Tony Messenger inspects the government-planted Astroturf behind local smoking bans in Missouri.

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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