An EU smoking ban?

Romania is still considered a smokers' paradise. Up to now, smoking has been restricted only in public buildings there. Costi Rogozanu can't see any point in the anti-smoking campaign – apart from the fact that he finds the warnings on cigarette packs funny: "I recently heard someone in a shop asking for a 'pack of Kent – the ones that damage your sperm'. At least the warnings have provided a new subject for jokes. Europe has now commissioned shock photos aimed at putting people off smoking for good – pictures of lungs destroyed by cancer and the like... This is tougher than any of the campaigns against drugs, alcohol, gluttony, corruption or human trafficking that I've seen. I know you can't compare apples with pears, or cigarettes with alcohol (although they go well together), but the anti-smoking campaign is taking on absurdly aggressive dimensions. It's a classic case – happy feelings are being banned."

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