The author pushes his narrative far too exclusively upon the shoulders of America.

About 30,000 Canadians die every year from cancers caused by cigarettes. 

Think about that: Per capita, that is about THIRTY TIMES the rate of deaths due to gun murders in the USA.

The author's narrative fits equally well upon Canada: The tobacco growers of Ontario, the cigarette manufacturers here, the stores selling the boxes of them.

Look, I am not fond of there being so many cigarettes or so many guns all over the place, but it is a bit of a card trick to pretend that only America is infected with the profit virus in question...