So, on the one hand, you have cheap microwave ovens from Szechuan province. Wonderful.
But, on the other hand, you get this:
The world’s first global health treaty – the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – comes into force on Sunday.
The anti-smoking pact has been signed by 168 countries, and ratified by 57 of them, which will now have to tighten their anti-tobacco laws.
Not so wonderful. Welcome to the globalized world.
The BBC was quoting the W.H.O as saying this was only the first step, and next they’d go after alcohol and junk foods…
Well, DUH!
They need their jobs.
Don’t you mean, “there’s the ready-rub”?
Well they do have a habit of coming up with these daft ideas, having a big conference and then forgetting about it after they leave. More an excuse for a junket than anything else.
When first I read this, I thought: “Damn. Our laws can’t get tighter on tobacco.” (I’m in Norway.)
I was right. They can’t. All that has been in place for years here, apart from the ban on smoking in public places–which came last year.