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Up in smoke: Poland to implement smoking ban?
A giant "No Smoking" sign is seen in a pub in Brussels
As publicans and anti-smoking campaigners battle over alleged extensions to the public ban on smoking, it’s commerce vs. health in what is likely to see Poland become the 11th EU member state to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
Should we expect a smoke-free Krakow by the summer, similar to London, Dublin, New York, et al? The recent spate of media reports may be hearsay, but EU pressure to ban indoor smoking in the remaining Member States is real. So is it really possible?
"A TV station asked me this same question three years ago," says pub owner Tom Naughton on speculation of new government legislation. The owner of Nic Nowego bar on Krzyza Street added that it’s a bad idea and it’ll mean the ruin of many bars in Krakow, simply because about 70 percent of them are underground.
Read more at Krakow Post
Should we expect a smoke-free Krakow by the summer, similar to London, Dublin, New York, et al? The recent spate of media reports may be hearsay, but EU pressure to ban indoor smoking in the remaining Member States is real. So is it really possible?
"A TV station asked me this same question three years ago," says pub owner Tom Naughton on speculation of new government legislation. The owner of Nic Nowego bar on Krzyza Street added that it’s a bad idea and it’ll mean the ruin of many bars in Krakow, simply because about 70 percent of them are underground.
Read more at Krakow Post
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By the way, This article gives the impression that Poland's ban is to be total. This is NOT correct. Poland's ban is nowhere near as draconian as the UK, but matches most EU countries where smokers are considered. It is to be a PARTIAL ban allowing smoking pubs, rooms etc.
It is NOT commerce vs. health!! That is the main deception perpetrated by the anti-smoker campaign.
It is commerce vs Pharmaceutical interests; Truth vs anti-smoker corruption;
Individual freedoms vs state control;
Tolerance vs intolerance and fanatical interests.
It is an attack on the free market that decimates many businesses, marginalises a substantial minority of the public and fractures society.
Smoking bans WILL have adverse effects, proven in every country that has been stupid enough to resort to coercion of its citizens on this issue. [...]
Read the full comment These are directly related to the severity of the ban conditions, with NO BENEFIT other than to bolster the egos of a few anti-smoker nut jobs and to fill the pockets of corrupt scientists.
'Smoke related' diseases continue to increase unaffected or unhindered in the slightest by the reduction in smoking prevalence! Child asthma, allegedly caused by smoking, is now at epidemic proportions. IE whatever the causes of ‘smoke related’ diseases , smoking is one of the least likely !!
How many lives have been lost as a result of anti-smokers troughing on the $billions of funds that should have been used to find REAL causes and cures?
As far as passive smoking is concerned- this information leaflet IS truthful;
http://www.eamonnmallon.co.uk/leaflet/shs_fraud.pd
We need to fight these anti smoker fanatics - do NOT underestimate their treachery.