Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tobacco smoking/archive1

Tobacco Smoking
This is an article that deals with the habit that many people in the world both enjoy and hate. The article is well cited and is balanced. --GoOdCoNtEnT 02:57, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Object. Insufficient referencing, only seven footnotes? RyanG e rbil10 (Drop on in!) 04:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Object. That lead really isn't great. It launches into an examination of one aspect of the subject matter, rather than providing an overview of smoking culture. The rest of the article (thankfully) doesn't bear this out, but the lead gives the impression that it's going to be an article about the evils of smoking - it's skewed and dangerously close to non-NPOV, nor does it even really explain why people smoke. Not a bad article by any means, but could do with a bit of work and those citation needed tags desperately need sorting, with the reference in general in vast need of improvement. Seb Patrick 09:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Additional - in fact, looking at the article, it does seem to give too much weight to the negative health effects, oppositions, etc. Too many of the subject headers are portraying the negative, rather than the positive, side. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a smoker, but the article just doesn't seem even-handed enough to me. For me, the "history" section is the most interesting part, but it could do with a lot of fleshing out (there's a sudden and quite jarring glossing over of the 1960s to the present day), and indeed I think it should be far more the focus of the article than it is. Expand the history, cut it into some well-defined sections, and the article might have a bit more balance. Seb Patrick 09:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Object I have looked more into the article and saw all the violations of non-NPOV. I now believe that it should not become a featured article until all these violations are corrected. --GoOdCoNtEnT 17:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)