Smoking ban is an attack on civil rights

I SEE that the unions, and SIPTU in particular, have decided to hitch their bandwagon to the No Smoking in the Workplace campaign. Sadly, it seems you can have any human right you want provided the politicians agree with it.

Whatever happened to tolerance? Isn’t that a human right as well? Apparently not. If we are to accept that our Health Minister is correct, smokers will no longer be tolerated. “Good thing,” I hear the so-called liberals say: “String them up, make examples of them. Show them their behaviour will not be tolerated. Ban their smoking from the workplace, and public spaces. They should be eliminated from society.”

Never mind that they have right on their side. Or do they? Let’s take a look at a few facts.