Espionage: Competitive Intelligence

Foreign interference of our elections reminds me of cigarette package warnings; expressly described and consciously ignored by its users and adopters. I have often wondered if the Surgeon General’s warning has ever prevented smoking? Even the European versions that use horrific pictures of smoking’s dangers likely lack true preventive aspects. Note: I am not suggesting that anti-smoking campaigns, health education, government projects, social pressures, etc. haven’t impacted smoking, I am sure they have; rising prices and sin taxes simply may have been as effective. I raise the topic of Smoking-Warnings as a corollary to the recent and ...