Secondhand smoke evidence converted smoking from private choice into public harm

Evidence

Evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke is injurious to the health of nonsmokers was especially troublesome. Smoking was no longer a private matter that could be justified by freedom of choice. It became a public health problem affecting nonsmokers whose rights were being violated. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1669

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to moral disengagement mechanisms elsewhere in the book — the shift from ‘private freedom’ to ‘public harm’ framing.