When socialism is infantilized, you get nanny statism. When baby doesn't mind government's good intentions, you get bottom-spanking big daddyism.

This French video illustrates the progress from importuning nannyism to the extremities of national health.*

FUMER TUE
The State Guarantees It

Pave follows with some interest French nanny-state projects. Here we reported on a nanny-state pas fumer initiative and here the less than spectacular results.

* We were a little surprised by the video's light-hearted tonsuring à la coiffure 1944. But, as our French correspondents are always quick to explain, l'épuration is so yesterday.

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Bonjour,

Cette hystérie sur la cigarette nous vient des USA.C'est encore un effet du puritanisme yankee sur la France:colonisation insidieuse US en France dont les Français sont de plus en plus révoltés.
Edward Luttwak (proche des nouveaux-cons US) crache le morceau dans son livre " le turbocapitalisme" (Odile Jacob).
Selon Luttwak cette hystérie sur la cigarette est due à l' intense frustration sociale qu'engendre le "modèle "social"" yankee.Les Yankees ne sachant à qui s'en prendre pour exprimer la haine que leur inspire ce ""modèle" trouvent un piètre exutoire dans la persécution de leurs proches voisins.

J'a été frappé en recevant un jeune américain chez moi (un parent très éloigné qui se conduisait comme un voyou par ailleurs) de le voir pousser des cris de fous furieux quand on allumait une cigarette devant lui…

Good luck for your country in Irak

(Cela n'a pas l'air de s'arranger d'ailleurs , puisque les Irakiens deviennent de plus en plus furieux de voir que l'argent promis pour la reconstruction (des destructions US) est seulement affecté à l'armée, la police,les milices fascistes privées US)…

A propos d'épuration.

Think twice before you eat that extra chocolate doughnut ;-)

Luttwak needs to update his book now that China is expanding. It has been a while since I read it, but his discussion of “America’s Calvinist” culture and turbo capitalism (you know, the rich are rich because God has blessed them, or some such thoughts) is, well, nonpareil.

Also, he said on addiction (we will consider nicotine to be an addiction, since post is cigarettes): “It is surely less painful to be chronically unemployed if one is not sober, drug-free, and filled with a desire to work at a satisfying job”

Has the high unemployment rate in France given rise to nicotine addiction(smoking)? If the unemployment rate went down, would smoking decrease?

One last point on Luttwak: he at one time had a cattle ranch of 110 sq km on the Guaporé River in Bolivia….so antiyankee, would that make him a rich capitalist, or a colonialist invader? :)

We were a little surprised by the video's light-hearted tonsuring à la coiffure 1944

Perhaps they were nostalgic for the Marshall plan. Southern (non-yankee) Congressmen insisted that American tobacco products be counted as Marshall Plan aid.

[the tobacco bill] "is designed and intended not only to rebuild the economy of western Europe but to combat the extension of any ideology intended to enslave people through false propaganda. Aid to European countries on a purely subsistence basis will not frustrate the designs of those who would destroy all democracies.... It appears desirable from the political viewpoint to include some of the things that will give the people of Europe what they most desire.... Tobacco is something they want.... Adequate supplies of tobacco ... will aid in eliminating or retarding the spread of ideologies antagonistic to democracy and to world peace.'

Wow, didn't know smokes could do all that...

Good luck to your country in keeping TURKISH (tobacco) out of the EU!