Giuliani shows how zero tolerance can co-exist with right to choose

THE right to choose is a slogan synonymous with another issue, but it’s one which Minister for Health Mícheál Martin will be hearing a lot of between now and the New Year before his unilateral smoking ban is introduced.

Instead of going to New York to find out for himself the effects of the smoking ban there, he could have saved himself the trouble, and the taxpayers a lot of money, had he awaited the arrival here of the former mayor of New York Mr Rudy Giuliani.

But then, the minister would not have welcomed the simple logic expressed by the refreshingly forthright Mr Giuliani, who knows exactly what are the effects of the ban in New York.