Declare Your Independence from Cigarettes--Quit Smoking Today, Austin!

Our forefathers rebelled against taxation without representation. In other words, they rejected a nefarious group of people who were taking their money.

If you think about it, that describes Big Tobacco pretty well.

And if you don't believe that industry is nefarious, you should do a little research into what your smoke money is paying for.

One of my favorite examples has to do with how Big Tobacco hired Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, to get women hooked on cigarettes. This interview with the man himself tells the tale of how that happened: