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the right to freedom, from exposure, to certain types of particulate aerosols
A leading medical journal today called for an outright ban on smoking and cigarettes, a demand described as "health fascism" by smokers' groups.
An editorial in the Lancet argued that 80% of people in the UK were non-smokers, saying they had "the right to freedom from exposure to proven carcinogens".
An estimated 1,000 people die in Britain each year from inhaling second-hand tobacco smoke, the editorial claimed. It warned that passive smoking not only killed, but also made it harder for smokers to quit.
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"Not only does the health lobby want to prohibit smoking in public places, it wants to ban tobacco and make smoking a criminal offence. There speaks the true voice of the rabid anti-smoking zealot.
�Guardian UK Dec.05.03

Ω{The death toll from highway accidents is a necessary part of modern living, on the one hand, and my right to enjoy some heroin in the evenings is of course different on the other. But nowhere, absolutely nowhere in any of that arguing is the sacred cow, the demonically sacred cow and its Satanic presence in our lives, that got all those people addicted to tobacco in the first place, mentioned.[see Murdoch, below] It's as though suddenly a hundred or so years ago everybody just started smoking, on a whim. Couldn't have been mass advertising now could it? The tobacco companies take the fall, but did they operate alone? And the same insidious manipulation has resulted in the unquestioned acceptance of the automobile and its manifold deadliness in all our lives that once caused smoking to be considered a normal adult behavior. Smoking was easier to take down than cars. It made people feel brave to challenge it, then righteous once the critical mass was achieved. The automobile,and its pimps and pushers, has shown those same forces up for the cowards they really are.}