Dispute over smoking ban

In the Slovakian parliament the anti-smoking lobby has not only proposed a full ban on smoking in bars, but also on growing and selling tabacco. The left-leaning daily Pravda sneers at the idea: "Even separating buildings into smoking and non-smoking sections creates huge problems. It would be still more absurd to ban growing and selling tobacco just to serve the world as a model. Should tobacco be smuggled out of Afghanistan over the Balkan route in future, like other drugs? ... Let's ban bacon too, while we're at it - it raises cholesterol. Or cars and industry - they pollute the air. Or flush toilets - they cause harmful sewage. People should go back to living in forests and caves. And here's another argument for the nonsmokers: like the current global economic crisis tobacco also comes from America."

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