Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: tobacco-caused deaths

  • George Orwell and the ethics of dealing in or dealing with cigarettes

    Lynn T. KozlowskiBuffalo, NY, United States Early in World War II, George Orwell wrote the essay “England, my England,” commenting that as he was writing “highly civilized human beings” were flying overhead trying to kill him: They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing…