Promoting Informed Choice, Not Prohibition: The Ethics of Asymmetric Paternalism for Smoking Cessation
Smoking remains a leading cause of preventable death and disease worldwide (World Health Organization, 2023), which increasingly become the target of more forceful anti-tobacco measures, such as outright cigarette sales bans (Branston & Gilmore, 2020). The UK’s proposal to raise the legal smoking age every year represents one of
