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Monday, April 14, 2003Despite being a non-smoker with smoke sensitive eyes, I am strongly opposed to the new restrictions on smokers. At least once a week, my wife and I take our two-year-old son and four-month-old baby to eat out in restaurants in Italy and we encounter smokers. But like most people, I am perfectly capable of asking people near us not to smoke. In these situations, the Italian health minister advises, "call the police." In the city of Trento patients recently did exactly that after a physician refused to stop smoking in a hospital waiting room. He was fined and reported to the national health service. Are we really so pathetic that we need the intervention of the health police? No doubt, that physician was being very rude. But, what do you suppose motivated his rudeness? Was it a total disregard for those around him, or a rebellion against the draconian smoking laws? Remember Prohibition, and all the violence it bred? Well, look what happened this weekend in New York. It isn’t a stretch to say that people are beginning to feel needlessly put upon by these stringent anti-smoking laws. Wouldn’t it make more sense to provide a separate smoking room in public places than to ban it all together? posted by Sydney on 4/14/2003 08:00:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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