Jacques Chirac declare la guerre au tabac (Chirac declares war on tobacco)

Liberation ^ | March 24, 2003

[missycocopuffs]

France

Jacques Chirac déclare la guerre au tabac 24 mars 13:38:12

PARIS (Reuters) - Jacques Chirac a ouvert le troisième et dernier grand chantier de son quinquennat, la lutte contre le cancer, en posant pour priorité la "guerre au tabac", responsable de 30.000 décès par an.

[missycocopuffs]

In yet another of those great ironies of the current conflict, Chirac declares "war on tobacco"...

[stanz]

Well, that's probably the only battle he can win.

[Spruce]

Have they surrendered yet?

[Thane_Banquo]

Well, that's probably the only battle he can win.

In France?! It's a nation of chain-smokers.

[bigfootbob]

"Well, that's probably the only battle he can win."

I don't think so. The surrender monkies smoke like fiends.

[jpl]

This just in: French government surrenders to invading cartons of cigarettes! Cigarettes promise the people of Paris will be treated humanely.

[dighton]

In yet another of those great ironies of the current conflict, Chirac declares "war on tobacco"...

... without UN authorization. I am shocked, saddened, bothered, bewildered, and gobsmacked.

[dirtboy]

Jacques Chirac declare la guerre au tabac (Chirac declares war on tobacco)

Breaking News - Paris, March 2004 - French Surgeon General Hans Blix announced that Paris was free of all tobacco smoking, but inspections would continue.

After personally inspecting a local bistro, Blix declared that the establishment was in compliance with the anti-tobacco resolution from Jacques Chirac. He then muttered something about how his clothing reeked and then was driven off in his limo, which had been parked in front of a tobacco shop.

[TheSpottedOwl]

War on tobacco: the last refuge of a scoundrel...

[Eazy-E]

Ithoughthe changed his name to Jaques Iraq.

[stanz]

But it's feasible....no way he could ever hope to succeed militarily. Remember the old Laurel and Hardy film about the French Foreign Legion? Just picture the bungling.

[MEG33]

LOL

[bigfootbob]

I agree. I find the French to be very amusing irrelevant mobile chateau trash.

[Wright is right!]

"In France?! It's a nation of chain-smokers."

It's quite common to see people sitting in bistros underneath "No Smoking" signs lighting up. It's a form of sport.

A couple of years back my wife and I took a motorcoach tour of Spain, Morocco and Portugal. We were in a group of 48, most of whom had been sold on the jaunt by their local AAA Travel Clubs as "a nice non-smoking tour" of those 3 countries. Needless to say, most of the dimwits on the tour had bought that descriptor hook line and sinker...and were appalled to see so many people smoking. Some even said things like, "How DARE they light up around us!" Many demanded non-smoking rooms, which (of course) are pretty much non-existent in Spain Morroco and Portugal. All were blissfully unaware of the attitudes about smoking in those countries - which I found especially amusing in Morocco, where smoking is The National Pastime.

Michael

[epluribus_2]

only a diplomatic solution is acceptable - war is always an admission of failure.

[stanz]

...amusing irrelevant mobile chateau trash.

LOL :-D

[missycocopuffs]

It's quite common to see people sitting in bistros underneath "No Smoking" signs lighting up. It's a form of sport.

Ah, yes, I remember it well...

I spent a semester at the university in Clermont-Ferrand. "Defense de fumer" signs were posted prominently in every large lecture hall, yet every other table in the halls had its own little tin ashtray, and students routinely lit up.

I was a smoker at the time, but could not quite bring myself to light up in a lecture hall.

[SquirrelKing]

NEWS ITEM - Member of the elite French anti-tobacco commandos on patrol in central Paris.

[Wright is right!]

"I was a smoker at the time, but could not quite bring myself to light up in a lecture hall."

Amazingly, the one place that Parisians obey the "defense de fumer" is on the Metro. Otherwise...

Michael

[putupon]

I want a UN resolution first.