{"id":34514,"date":"2017-11-22T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34514"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:25:21","slug":"qotd-anti-smoking-fanaticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/qotd-anti-smoking-fanaticism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Anti-smoking fanaticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whenever I am in Paris I stay near P\u00e8re-Lachaise, the greatest cemetery in the world, and I always take at least one walk in it. It is, like life and literature, inexhaustible; and after all, the paths not only of glory but of journalism, too, lead but to the grave.<\/p>\n<p>On the way there this time I was passed by a road-sweeping vehicle with an excellent advertisement on its side. It showed a vast pyramid of cigarette ends, with the legend \u201c350 tons of cigarette ends per year\u201d: the sum of such annual sweepings in Paris. This must equate to an awful lot of death.<\/p>\n<p>On the matter of smoking I suffer not so much from cognitive as from emotional dissonance. On the one hand I detest the filthy habit, and whenever I see the slogan SMOKING KILLS on a discarded packet on the ground, I think, \u201cYes, but not quickly enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I detest the antismokers, the Savonarolas of public health. I want people to spite them by smoking, though not in my breathing space.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Dalrymple, <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/of_grave_concern_theodore_dalrymple\/print#ixzz44xWFI7Dc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Of grave concern&#8221;, <em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2016-04-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I am in Paris I stay near P\u00e8re-Lachaise, the greatest cemetery in the world, and I always take at least one walk in it. It is, like life and literature, inexhaustible; and after all, the paths not only of glory but of journalism, too, lead but to the grave. On the way there this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10,41],"tags":[97,244,1289],"class_list":["post-34514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-advertising","tag-publichealth","tag-theodoredalrymple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8YG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34516,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514\/revisions\/34516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}