14 Feb 2006
Smoking ban in all pubs and clubs

It's a good thing the men who defeated the greatest menace ever faced by Western civilization – FDR, Churchill and Stalin – lived before the current anti-smoking hysteria. The latter two constantly smoked cigars, and the former chain-smoked cigarettes. They would have fared rather poorly today. On the other hand ...

"I am convinced that if I had been a smoker, I never would have been able to bear the cares and anxieties which have been a burden to me for so long. Perhaps the German people owe its salvation to that fact."
--Adolf Hitler, March 1942

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MPs vote in overwhelming numbers to ban smoking from all pubs and clubs in England.

(link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

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