For a smoke-free Europe

[etztec]

Das ist mal eine sehr Sinnvolle Sache. Denn Raucher schaden eben wirklich auch den Menschen in ihrer Umgebung. Wenn man dem Raucher das Rauchen verbietet ist es daher eine kleinere Einschränkung der Freiheit des Rauchers als die Entscheidung des Rauchers, alle Menschen um ihn herum mit seinem Rauch zu belästigen. Es hindert den Raucher ja auch niemand daran, kurz vor die Tür zu gehen, während Rauchgeruch länger in Räumen erhalten bleibt.

[MrBigwong]

This message was paid for you by Phillip Morris.

Remember kids, one out of two doctors recommends Marlboros.

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, I don't get it. Why are the pubs going out of business so fast? Their food must stink because I just know that non smokers drink on occations. The fact that you can't smoke should effect your eating or drinking. Do you mean to tell me that you can't enjoy a drink or a meal without having a cigerette?

[nem2010]

CORRECT.... just like a meal is not complete without a good drink...

[JamesBurrTV]

Funny how they don't mention the 10% drop in the number of pubs in Ireland in the first 12 months of the anti smoking law. It seems this was made before the England ban which has caused a twentyfold increase in pub closures. Geneva & Bavaria have overturned their bans due to the economic damage they cause. NHS figures also show NO CHANGE in death rates since the UK ban, putting the lie to the "thousands die of passive smoking" myth. AND smoking rates have increased in the UK. Lies,lies, lies

[stevenadler]

stop smoking, it's a european tradition!

[wickedmental]

Very biased, maybe they should show how pubs are closing down every week due to the law.

[wickedmental]

Biast video.

[nem2010]

Passive smoking damaging non smokers to the degree they are saying is pure crap. Its much more likely that fumes from traffic cause most of these passive smoking caused cancers and diseases etc. Eg:- Guy works down in mine, but gets lung cancer and blames it on the passive smoking he experienced at lunchtime due to his work mate, not on the continous dust intake of his job. Ridiculous. And more ridiculous is how people believe all this shit propoganda without question.

[lookslikepat]

I'm all for a smoking-ban Inside, but when the rules starts applying Outside, I'm protesting it.

- Ex smoker.

[maygenta]

Well perfume air freshener anything that gives a strong odour ban it.French Garlic breath is offensive as hell. Not really interested in the euro opinions they feed their own kids wine.They should stop going on about passive smoking they have no proof what so ever and i think its about time people brought this to light.MMM wheres my ciggys.

[YourLocalGP]

@maygenta Carbon particles are carcinogenic, end of. Not even tobacco companies argue that any more. Burnt toast is carcinogenic for the same reason. If you're still unsure about that, you need to check whether you really believe the earth isn't flat.

[prochoicechuckles85]

next the whole world is going to explode thanks to SHS!

[elbillingino]

It's truly incredible - only a few months ago, an EU advert put the figure for second-hand smoke deaths at 17,000. Now it's 79,000. It just gets deadlier and deadlier, doesn't it?

[prochoicechuckles85]

indeed- next itll be the planet will explode due to SHS!!

[prochoicechuckles85]

next SHS will "cause" global warming. Nice lessons by Goebels- "if a lie is told often enough it becomes the truth". Thats how the SHS scam is believed by fools.

[prochoicechuckles85]

Then dywanik go to places(ie venues) that have made the decision to go smokefree.

What a bunch of lies this programme says- no death has been PROVEN to ETS. It is a scam. The lies will be found out its a matter of when. However good conmen are they always get found out.

Good idea about basnning other things- how about mayonnaise? The smell irritates me.

[exocet123]

Second Hand Smoke created by Second Hand Studies for Anti-Smoking bigots.

[dywanik1]

I would ban smoking all across the EU. I hate coming back from a pub with headache just because few people has been smoking.

[workstationnumlock]

"I would ban smoking all across the EU. I hate coming back from a pub with headache just because few people has been smoking."

Don't go?

[maugustyniak]

Hell, we could smoke under the Warsaw Pact! Fuck this shit!

[OlleQvarnstrom]

US = the land of the "(Free)" aka the land off the Stupid.

[misiu19772]

EU=the union fo socialist european republics

[suzannacharisma]

ermmm......I believe this law is a totally waste of time. I will continue to smoke anyway :)

[DeltaNC]

In Ireland and Scotland people said the same thing, but I think between us there has been few notable cases. In general smokers respect the new rules even if they disagree, and anyone smoking within a business is often asked to leave by the owners because it#s just not worth the risk.

[sedna69a]

Social engineering on the march.The idea is that if I don't like what legal thing you enjoy, I'll ban them to make you just like me.

[DeltaNC]

Isn't that the very thing you are doing to others?

Id be happy for you to smoke in public if you find a way to keep it to yourself, until you can please keep your dirty habit away from me.

[bachlva]

It's an idea whose time has not only come, it's long overdue. I believe in the inalienable right to freedom, but not the freedom to kill other people. Where I live, it's also been banned in restaurant patios. Everyone also has a right to be healthy if they so choose, and not be forced to be subjected to other people's poisonous gases, so to speak. Lots of people thought it would be an issue here too but it wasn't and it's worked out really well. I'm glad to see Europe is progressing.

[waykone]

I suspect many of these silly comments are from non Europeans. I also suspect quite a few are from "Democratic" countries, that's Democratic with a capital D as in Duplicitous.

Yes, smoking is a right, just like free speech until you start to poison people.

[selbs101]

For those who dont know, it is bannned in the UK too!

[ekueffel]

Why are there alway those stupid comments of these stupid Anti-Europeans who live in Europe. They're real fools.

[Turpsup]

for a nazi dominated europe

[thecursedfly]

still cannot believe italy voted such a good law as one of the first xD

the belgian example is quite stupid... or you allow it everywhere, or nowhere...

the important thing this law defends is: ppl can smoke and damage theirselves as they want, but i want not to be damaged too 'cause of them. It's about respect of the others.

[Mortarattack]

I wonder how much taxpayer money goes into curing the cancers of these damn smokers; Screw smoke and screw the tobacco multinationals!

[Tatoon]

i lot less than the total tax money on tobbaco products.

[FightTheElite]

Do you like freedom or do you want your government to tell you what you can or cannot do?

We'll keep on smoking anyway... just like people who smoke weed in countries where it's not allowed.

[thespy006]

lol anti smoke law is stupid

only health hippies like it

[ComradeRed2020]

I dont want others to smoke when I am at a restaurant enjoying my meal. Afterall restaurants are meant for eating and offices for working and not for smoking.

Smoking close to nonsmokers is the same as taking away the freedom from the nonsmokers to stay clean. Afterall you are still allowed to smoke elsewhere.

[Ichinin]

Too many smokers do not show any respect because they are totally oblivious to the world around them and when such legislation appears, they are surprised and wonder how someone could interfere with their "right" to poison other people.

If smoking was invented today, it would be instantaneous illegal in all EU countries.

[DarthTanner]

Then why are people ellecting these officials?

[SandstormProduction]

I think it is a great thing that Germany and some other european countries finally banned smoking in closed public places. I'm tired of the smoke and changing my clothes when I've been to a pub or club.

[sexboywonder]

too little too late, in 2005 I wrote an official complaint to the Heinrich Heine University for the fact that I found nurses smoking 2 meters away from a dying man on respiration with open doors in the patients room and the nurses lounge, needless to say, the Drs after that gave shitty service and attitude to me for personal care

[RumanaMadrid]

Great video. We, the nonsmokers don't like to be forced into passive smoking everywhere.

[lucvanruler]

Smoking is not a right, it's a duty. For everyone, and for a better world.

[grayabc1234]

I'm a non-smoker and am totally against the UK ban on smoking, which I know is an EU directive that the government is trying to disguise as their own initiative. The whole 'no smoking' campaign reeks of authoritarianism, our political masters don't care about freedom, they just want us to act how they want. We are in a post-democratic Europe and it began when the EEC was created.

[DarthTanner]

er no its not a eu directive, do you believe you should be able to infect the people around you with cancer?

[sexboywonder]

people like you are why EUROPE is so fucking far behind in the times. you actually believe that smoking is representational for freedom. its been the ongoing argument for a while. i found nurses smoking 3 meters away from a man on respiration in a hospital in Germany. fuck your righs. you dont need desreve them

[yesiam111]

You're just basically writing this nonsense in every EU video on youtube. Do you really want Britain to be America's pet forever?

[Mortarattack]

Wanna go back to fascist or communist regimes. I doubt they'd be more democratic than the EU

[wazabi86]

you all talk like it is illegal now to smoke. it's just banned in CLOSED PUBLIC places, which is a great idea. what about the freedom of non-smokers? let them passive smoke and their clothes stink against their will?

[vexfeb]

On the EU website it states "It can be estimated that alcohol causes nearly 195000 deaths in the EU each year." yet from 1990 drugs such as heroin, crack and acid combined reach no where near a high a number as that.

i push to you, is it not funny how all drugs the government don't take tax on are "BAD" for us.

yet we're told It can be estimated that alcohol causes nearly 195000 deaths in the EU each year.

lets ban drinking too!

[TimCommerford]

You can stopp drinking if you want, but let other people decide for themselves.

[vexfeb]

Ladies and Gentlemen i welcome you towards our first steps under the highly unrecognised dictatorships of our world leaders.

[iluviyengar]

Bit out of date this...UK is completely smoke free in public spaces and work places. !!!!also like sommeone else sys, Map of EU members is also out of date

[gizmosells]

Nannie state is slippery slope, but let the bar onwers make the choice. Ban smoking? Whats next, banning twinkies, candy bars, it will backfire in time.

[DarthTanner]

so the bar owner can decide wether or not to expose his customers and employees to cancer?

[sexboywonder]

there are no passive twinkies. you fool

[fabio9913]

Flawed comparison.

[LibertyUPR]

Sick socialist propaganda..

[Swanbow]

Smoking, another freedom lost.

[sexboywonder]

and a great loss at that ! i hope they bring in public executions for smokers in Europe. thad be kewl

[sexboywonder]

I wouldnt call assault a freedom. Passive smoke should be with out any question, legally considered assault

[discobedient]

Earth is full, we need more smokers, not less!

[chrisbhackett]

People can walk away from my smoke.

How can i avoid the chokeing fumes that belch out of these sanctimonious bastards suvs?

Also tax the obese they`re sucking up more health resources faster than drinkers or drug addicts.

[qqleq2]

chrisbhackett wrote: "People can walk away from my smoke."

So, in the mioddle of my meal in my favorite restaurant, *I* should walk away because *you*, on the next table, want to smoke? (Or, alternatively, let my taste be ruined by the the smell?) Why should *I* adapt myself to *your* adiction? Strange train of thought.

And yes, you're right: cars are bad too. But the comparision is weak. Cars are no unnecessary addiction that you could take outside if you were polite enough.

[28October1961]

When are they going to ban 'joss' sticks, how many people do they kill?

[sundaeg1rl]

Anti-smoking fascists

[xen300]

Soviet-style; very funny.

[Buzzinbaz]

they banned smoking in the uk on july1st 07 and i don't mind standing outside for a cig means i can chat up the girls then (*)-(*)

[MexicanSeadude]

I dissagree, It was stupid of them to ban smoking in ALL pubs and clubs in the uk, they could of atleast thought of clubs/pubs get a liscence to allow people to smoke inside, there just has to be ample ventilation in the room. but, no smokers lose out again. lets just shove em outside, well i dunno about where all you people live but i wouldnt like to be outside a club around here for longer than 2 minutes, its that bad, imagine what its gonna be like now

[ETAmsterdam]

I guess, why not?

[jofman1988]

Oh do fuck off EU.

I'm no smoker but I respect the rights of the landlord of a pub.

[DarthTanner]

to allow people to spray cancer causing smoke over other patrons?

[sexboywonder]

not only cancer but disease. a vast assortment of other diseases from cavities, asthma, brain damage/learning disabilities, birth defects have all been linked to smoke and passive smoke.

[SOiser]

And once again an EUtube Video, with an EU-Map that's outdatet...

Not realy serious EU Work.

It that not a discrimination for Romania and Bulgaria?

I thought EU is totaly against discrimination.

[happyloser2]

damn this is a boring video. funny name tho. eutube xD

[leftofleft]

And how many deaths are due to CARS? are we to ban those? You're a bunch of cowardly morons.

[christopherwoods]

Yayyyy for thinly-veiled public service videos! I do want a dot eu domain name though ;)

I agree with DarthTanner - there's no direct legislation enforcing a ban in all member countries, it's entirely at their discretion - still an alright video though, I've seen FAR worse come from the EU PR machine!

[amst3rdam]

Why are casino's not smoke free?

[2008G]

In Greece the situation is horrible. I do not smoke but I work in an office with 5 smokers. The thing is that laws exist but are not being respected. I wish that there will be more EU actions to help people change mentality.

[DarthTanner]

Sory but this has nothing to do with the EU, the members states can do it themselves if they wish without EU directives.

[CircleWorks]

True.

[SimpleRules]

I don't know when this was made but the now all of the UK has banned smoking, England was the last just a few weeks ago.

[jkejke]

hehe EUtube, i giggled.

[AtlanteanUtopia]

Offices, State buildings and public schools are Smoke-free in Belgium. So as public buildings.

This is a good step towards a smoke-free Europe.

Europa united ! Forever !

[sexboywonder]

too little too late