This blurb’s title may not come as much of a surprise to you. And neither will the ads (in the unlikely event you actually see one in the wild) being produced and paid for by tobacco companies — in which they admit that smoking is deadly and that they knowingly worked to make them more addictive. “In 1999, the US Department of Justice filed a racketeering lawsuit against tobacco companies. In 2006, US District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled that tobacco companies must pay for ads admitting wrongdoing. But tobacco companies held up the ruling through appeals, obtaining major concessions that, for example, let them avoid having to admit that they deliberately lied and manipulated in previous marketing campaigns for cigarettes.” After nearly two decades, the watered-down ads will finally run on network television (remember that?) and print newspapers (remember those?). Choosing this story as today’s lead may have been my crafty way of reminding you that big corporations tend to try to get away with exactly as much as they’re allowed to get away with; and that the self-regulation being touted as a panacea by some is probably a really bad way forward. But I won’t freely admit that. (Ask me again in a few decades…)