Swiss back smoking ban

The ban on smoking in restaurants and other public places in Switzerland, officially approved. From the second attempt, but utverzhden.V Geneva after a year's break came back a ban on smoking in public places. At the time, voted for him over 80% of the Canton of Geneva, but later the country's Supreme Court declared the ban was illegal.
Slightly less than a year ago, on Sept. 30, 2008 First, the Supreme Court of Switzerland has decided that without the introduction of federal law separate cantons do not have the right to ban smoking in cafes, restaurants and similar places, and that the ban was supported 81.77% of the population of the canton, - not a reason to violate the constitution. Approved a ban only now.
$ 900 for smoking
Regular cigarette habit for Russia, for example, at a bus stop in Geneva, will cost an amount that exceeds the average salary in Russia: the fines reach a thousand francs, it is more than 29 thousand rubles (if we assume the current rate). If, however, still leave close to "crime scene" butt, you will have to pay another fine for dropping rubbish - however, it existed before the introduction of the smoking ban.
These measures can not be called unreasonable. A recent study by American cardiologists study demonstrated that in the first year after the ban on smoking in public places, the number of heart attacks decreased by a quarter. Doctors believe that the fewer visitors restaurants, clubs and cafes breathe other people's tobacco smoke - the better not only for light, but also for the cardiovascular system. And benefit from the ban did not traditionally considered vulnerable pregnant women, elderly and sick people: to my surprise the doctor said, and reduction of cardiovascular disease among the very active youth.
The Swiss in the early summer of 2008 on this study could not know, but to breathe the smoke still do not want to. Moreover, if judged according to World Tobacco Atlas, the recently published report on smoking in the world, have shown a consciousness of themselves smokers: in Switzerland, those 30% among men and 22% among women. Some of them, apparently decided that addiction in a public place - still bust.
Loosening
Over the past year, the bill had been some adjustments that make the Swiss restaurants and bars more attractive to lovers of tobacco.
Initially it was assumed that these institutions will not be able to smoke even in the presence of specially equipped rooms for smokers, but owners have to pay up to ten thousand francs for the violation of this rule. But in the end a compromise was nevertheless found: rooms for smokers legalized.
The most radical opponents of smoking, however, have already announced that will appeal to federal court and will need to cover up and smoking rooms, but there will be crowned with success of their initiative - it is not clear.
Not all opponents of smoking are equally useful for society
The fight against smoking has become the norm in the modern world. In the U.S., for example, the percentage of smokers has decreased since the mid XX century, several times, in Norway, a pack of cigarettes cost in utter (on the scale of Russia, but against the background of the Norwegian salaries are quite a few) worth more than 350 rubles ($ 11.47), and the design of cigarette packs in Iran with the image of throat cancer and other diseases would envy even illustrated atlas for medical students.
But some time ago it was all a big exotic. The first institute, which began studying the hazards of smoking in a scientific manner, appeared in 1941 in a country which had already introduced a higher tobacco taxes, ban smoking in trains, the ban on smoking birth attendants and many other progressive measures. The leader of this state have repeatedly denounced tobacco, saying that would introduce a ban on smoking even in the army ... and he's recently got into the news column on an entirely different reason. Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, detested tobacco, and remembered him recently in connection with the scandal stored in the State Archives of Russia fragment of the skull.