Call To Ban Smoking In Irish Homes
(01/02/07)

A report before the Irish Government calls on them to implement measures to extend the smoking ban to peoples own homes. The report by the Irish Health Promotion Unit within the HSE recommends that apartment complexes and dwellings with multi tenants be the first target of such a ban.

The report follows a study by so called experts that showed over 50% of Irish people choose to allow smoking in their own homes. This has prompted anti smoking fanatics within the Irish Health Service to publish this report demanding the government take action and not allow people to facilitate smoking in their own homes. A conclusion of the report carried out by the HSE was that people allowed smoking in their own homes because they were not assertive enough. The report calls for the government to spend money on assertiveness training and media campaigns to encourage people to be assertive about stopping smoking in their own homes. The authors further demand the government explore extending smoking ban legislation to cover the home.

One thing this report and study by so called experts seems to have overlooked is that many Irish people are capable of exercising a modicum of common sense in relation to the fanatical hysteria about smoking. They continue to smoke and allow others to smoke in their homes because they have concluded the oppressive and fanatical campaign against the smoker and passive smoke is underpinned by utter medical junk science and posses no great health risk.

Freedom of Choice was buried alongside common sense and decency with the introduction of the smoking ban in Ireland. Intolerance replaced compromise and what was once a mere pet hate has become a tyrannical crusade of hysteric proportions. A crusade aided by draconian legislation backed up with jackboot tactics and underpinned by medical junk science. That so called health experts can without the bat of an eyelid recommend to a government that people in their own private homes be bullied, coerced and forced to behave in a way they deem fit should surely raise alarm bells in even the most docile and compliant of citizens.