Commentary Back in 1967, I wrote my first news article. It was for 7th grade English class in my public junior high school in Michigan. I attacked smoking. Obviously I was reflecting what they were teaching us, and what the mass media were promoting. The schools still heavily advance anti-smoking health messages. Lo these five decades later, we’re all familiar with the daily drumbeat of anti-tobacco ads and promotions. In California, it’s illegal to sell tobacco to anyone under 21, even though you can vote and join the military at 18. A pack of cigarettes costs about $10, sometimes higher, most of the price from taxes. And California is the state with the second lowest percentage of smokers, after Utah. Yet there’s still a lot of money around promoting anti-smoking messages, along with more laws to restrict use. On Wednesday, the American Lung Association in California released its 20th Annual “State …