Two Prominent Public Health Scholars Warn on Alcohol & Tobacco Policies: Moral Hygienism, State Puritanism or Industrial Lobbies ?

Two Prominent French Public Health Scholars Warn on Alcohol & Tobacco Policies: Hell is Paved with Good Intentions. Moral Hygienism, State Puritanism or Industrial Lobbies ? A Call for Action (Nov. 19, 2007)

«Alcool, tabac. Gare au pavé de l'ours. Hygiénisme moral, puritanisme d'Etat, ou lobbies industriels ? Un appel à réagir» (Original in French plus comments)


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Image (not part of the call): Marx talking with French workers, 1844. By Hans Mocznay, 1964 (Deutsches Historisches Museum).

Relevant notes:
1) Most of the characters are smoking (cigar, pipe, cigarettes)
2: Marx one day said: “The Capital will never make up for all the cigars I smoked while writing it” (source : Die Neue Zeit, IX Jhrg., 1890-1891, pp. 10-17, 37-42).

Oh la la, la France encore ! Exhale now !

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