Robert Bork’s argumentative article, “Addicted to Heath,” focuses on the issue of smoking restrictions enforced across the United States. Bork’s purpose is to persuade readers that smoking restrictions are simply one more way in which the government is trying to control the people of America. While his arguments are interesting and, at times, convincing, his writing style is rather too one-sided and aggressive to be successful.
Robert Bork is a conservative legal scholar currently at the American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research. Therefore, he speaks with some credibility on his subject. However, his appointment to the Supreme Court ...