Rand told her followers to smoke cigarettes because "it symbolizes man's conquest of fire", and that all this stuff about it causing cancer was "communist propaganda to promote socialized medicine"  (i.e. Medicare, which keeps old people from dying if they can't cough up $350 for medicine that costs $3.50 to make.)

She is right about one thing: objective truth always has the last word.  And the truth is that Rand didn't smoke cigarettes for some lofty philosophical reason; she smoked cigarettes because she was addicted to nicotine—a life-destroying weakness.  And she wasn't assassinated by the communists; she died from smoking the noble capitalist cigarettes that the noble Captains of Industry assured her were safe.

That too, pretty well sums up Ayn Rand and her grasp on objective reality.

Faye, Faye, Faye, I still have to much to say to you, but sometimes, like this one, you are RIGHT. ON.