The fight against smoking, the fight against freedom 

According to various activities that can last years, but weeks and months, especially in a European record, and our now already in the Union’s political institutions and legislative assemblies and stably in the media, smokers Bell Tolls. 

The commendable thing, however, has the proverbial two faces, and who wants to seriously discuss this issue and form an opinion on him, he would see both. 

The prohibition of stink 
The politically correct expression of opinion, of course, considered the only “true”: smoking is harmful, annoying non-smokers “clean” environment, it costs the lives, health, money … It is therefore necessary to stop it, ban, smokers reported from polite society, the common house and restaurant space (the number of flats will come next) on the street. 

Most recently called for a ban on smoking has on the streets (as they are written on the editorial chief of the MF Dnes, Karel Skrabal Edition 9 February). In particular, make-up removal is the author’s sentence: “Again we see the ideological claptrap about freedom to stink.” 

Nothing like honesty. Seventeen years after the fall of totalitarianism important position in the liberal newspaper journalist considered it a mere “likelihood” the debate about freedom of anything or anyone for junk, as “ideological claptrap” harassing a conscious citizen of the only correct attitude. Svazáctví as a world view. 

Therefore provide some crap like ammunition: Aside from the substance, because there is not in the current debate. I will deal with the fact that nobody has yet demonstrated how significant the impact of smoking on mortality, respectively, for the fatal disease, and what role this played a serious problem, other factors such as stress, diet, consume vast quantities of various drugs, heredity, and so on. 

Did not prove it because current methods can not prove. Only it is said, because “the fight against smoking is obviously a much better grip and safer than, say, the liberalization of legislation in relation to alternative treatments, which would significantly limit the consumption of dangerous” cures. “ 

Medical Lobby 
But a clash with the pharmaceutical giants would be far more dramatic and will affect the “White Army”, as rightly stated in the magic of unwanted communism classically educated doctors – alopatům. So the main “scientific” sponsors anti-smoking campaign.Such a debate would only be the case, but does not in the foreseeable future, or lead. 

It is certainly proper, if somebody tobacco smoke bothers to state prevails in a society where such a need, improve convenience of citizens such as the legislative department of smoking and smoking “common space” and allow to isolate the non-smokers. 

Then it would have to define this thing as the public interest and to see such a financially to ensure that owners of restaurants and similar establishments, where there was a technical department, the necessary investments are sanitized from public budgets. 

The attack on personal freedom 
In the quest for the holy “ban everything” for total control of all aspects of our life, anti-smoking only obstruction of the more visible battlegrounds in the general leftist war against all forms of individual freedom, liberty as against the principle. 

A telling example of the exclamation mark is a secondary school in Ostend, Belgium, where students-smokers were forced to wear repellent “badges wrongdoing” on their clothes. Only a backlash, which recalled a time when other “pests of humanity” had to wear badges on their coats like David in the form of stars, caused the “program” was muted. Just in the socialist youth, this time in Ostend symbolic content overplayed. But not in principle. He just stripped naked again. 

Who’s next? 
Sagittarians are lasting. I picked the other battles. Their sights will be those who have more pounds of body weight than the “scientifically determined” optimal. Then to be “unruly opinions. 
And more. And more. 

So when dočteš again tomorrow, dear readers (if you belong to a minority of the defect, which would like to live in a free world), that smokers in Europe, the bell tolls, do not ask for whom the bell. It tolls for thee.