The analytical program "However," with Mikhail Leontyev 01 November 2012
A draft anti-tobacco law has been submitted to the Duma - the toughest stories Russia and, it seems, not only in Russia.
According to the project, it is planned to completely ban smoking in transport, including not only at railway stations and airports, but also before entering there, in all public places, hotels, restaurants, and, moreover, including hookah. For the organization of the smoking area in the entrances, the consensus of all homeowners is necessary. Tobacco is also forbidden to sniff and chew. Smoking is banned for all heroes of films and programs Trade rules are also becoming tougher and excise taxes are rising sharply.
That is, in the world of anti-tobacco hysteria, Russia is breaking out in first places, catching up and overtaking recognized leaders. With that, Russia is a smoking country. We have half the adult population smoking, and men - two-thirds. And these people also have rights. Immediately make a reservation: non-smokers have the right to be protected from smoking. Protection of their rights is legal and necessary. And - the point.
The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes statistics that nearly 6 million people die per year from smoking-related diseases. More than 5 millions of them are current or former smokers, and about 600 thousands are non-smokers exposed to tobacco smoke.
WHO shamelessly lies, as in many cases with supposedly terrible epidemics, because it is on the content of pharmaceutical companies. A pharmaceutical lobby is more powerful than tobacco. Smoking can be an arbitrarily harmful and dangerous habit, but such statistics can not be. Not a single death certificate, where in the column "cause of death" would be smoking, does not exist. If your watch struck 13, then it makes sense to doubt the thirteenth beat, but also in the previous twelve.
We will not speak here about obvious misanthropic excesses and obvious clinic in the project, such as banning hookah and chewing, about the economic riskiness and social danger of a sharp rise in the cost of tobacco. A lot has been said about this. There is a fundamental thing, a fundamental principle: the enforced, compulsory introduction of a healthy lifestyle, like morality is not permissible. No one has the right to dictate to me how I live, if it does not affect other people. No one has that right. This is not a matter of discussion. Even in parliament. And it’s not at all accidental that Onishchenko threatened to disperse parliament if he did not approve the bill.
“If, until now, Mr. Onishchenko’s statements could be explained by the danger of his activities, for example, he drank Borjomi, swallowed Polish beef, or Spanish-German cucumbers there, but now it becomes just dangerous,” said State Duma deputy from United Russia. "Andrei Makarov.
It really becomes dangerous. And not in the smoking case. God be with him - with smoking. And in paranoia. Because in addition to the physical health of the nation, it's time to think about its mental health.
“If there is a pack of cigarettes in your pocket, then not everything is so bad today ...” (words from the song of Viktor Tsoi)
I am sure in advance that this cue will be presented as paid for by the tobacco lobby. I officially declare that I am not in contact with the tobacco lobby. I do not smoke or smoke at all.
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