[Eurotwit]

Here is an english language version of the Aftenposten article for those interested. I read up on the original statements and it appears that it was proffesor Fuggeli that claimed that Brundtland compared smoking with sexual child molestation. In reality, it seems like Brundland only compared it with child molestation:

NORWEGIAN PROFESSOR:
«Brundtland is fanatical»
Av: Hanne Dankertsen 16. jun 10:28

Professor Per Fugelli says WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland is a health fundamentalist after Brundtland stated she would like smoking to be forbidden near children, including in people's homes.

The WHO leader said in an interview that it should be possible to forbid smoking in people's homes, when children are nearby.
«Of course we should be able to forbid smoking in front of young children. Everyone agrees that one should not beat children, even it happens in the home», said Brundtland.


Fundamentalist
«Gro Harlem Brundtland has left reality and become a health fundamentalist», says Professor of Social Medicine, Per Fugelli.

«It both scares and disappoints me that Gro is saying this. For years, her trademark was to always stress the importance of science and factual documentation. Now, she speaks like a health fanatic and a fundamentalist. She has left the real world and is apparently willing to sacrifice freedom and the protection of privacy in order to ban smoking even in the private sphere», says the Professor.


Stigmatising
The Professor is shocked by the way smoking parents are stigmatised as child abusers and does not think smoking and violence can be compared:

«This is completely out of proportion. Smoking is hardly a Chernobyl disaster. My brother and I had parents who smoked but we still turned out OK», he says.

[Just another Joe]

For years, her trademark was to always stress the importance of science and factual documentation. Now, she speaks like a health fanatic and a fundamentalist. She has left the real world and is apparently willing to sacrifice freedom and the protection of privacy in order to ban smoking even in the private sphere»

This could describe many of the anti-smoking nico-nannies here on Free Republic also.