Irish puff away as Europeans act on smoking addiction

Iceland may go and make cigarettes available by prescription only. In Ireland, the state will allow you to smoke yourself to death, but not to take your own life

WHICH is more dangerous: You continuing to be able to randomly kill people with impunity — or the state stepping in to stop you?

That is the dilemma currently gripping Iceland as the country’s parliament debates a radical move to make cigarettes available on prescription only — and even then, just in extreme cases.