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Europe struggles to stub out smoking {Gadling}
Jan 4th 2009 6:59AM This is not an issue of 'holding on to their sticks' this is an issue of choice, which any democratic country should uphold. It is also an issue about jobs and business survival in hospitality. Hundreds of thousands of businesses and well in excess of a million jobs have been lost in bars, hotels, restaurants and clubs worldwide as a result of these bans, and yet there is no evidence of smoking levels or serious illness reduction.
Bans have so obviously failed that there is now an attempt to introduce 'third hand smoke' to further demonise smokers. The so called science behind this is even more laughable than that attributed to second hand smoke, but no doubt the media will hype it up.
Politicians and political parties are now even seeing the 'light', there is an international conference in the European Parliament at the end of January where hundreds of campaigners from across Europe will listen to independent experts who will dispel all the myths of passive smoke. Details can be found at www.freedom2choose.info.
Finally the German Constitutional Court has just decided that Germany smoking bans are unconstitutional, ironic given Germany's history of hardly being a shining example of democracy.
