Unless, of course, health is not really what is at issue at all, and smokers have become an acceptable scapegoat for the moralistic impulses of all societies and the death-denial peculiar to our own.

当然，除非健康不是真正的病根，并且吸烟已成为一只可接受所有社会团体道德冲动以及我们自己否定死亡特权的替罪。