I have never smoked , and I will probably never will , but it annoys me enormously when politicians from the municipal level to the EU dictate whether people smoke or not .



Our Committee has today sent

back to the Commission a tobacco directive which would, amongst other things, prohibit snus , cigarette flavours, thin cigarettes and would mandate warnings on 70% of the packages . If enough other countries do the same , the Commission must start over.



... If the EU , state and local governments succeed in making people stop smoking (which they hardly do) , we will become healthier , but it's a poor society that controls its citizens completely in the private sphere . A rich life is to have his personal integrity safeguarded, and even to choose , good , bad , funny , unhealthy , healthy or downright stupid .



The only thing that is certain in life is that we eventually die . What we do with life while we have it is for us to decide.