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Intellectum 2010
Health as a stock market lotteryKeywords: smoking ban , non-smokers , anti-smoking campaign , smoking , lung cancer , health and smoking , anti-smoking campaign France , health at risk , French anti-smoking campaign , European anti-smoking measures , irrational anti-smoking campaign , alcohol , Norbert Elias Abstract: The present article constitutes a critical comment on the issue of smoking ban. It places the case of the contrast between smokers and non-smokers at a sociological basis, perceiving it as a separate aspect of the dipole ‘civilized-uncivilized’. Accepting the assumption that characterizations and partition walls captivate people in immutable identities, the writer claims that the new anti-smoking campaign is self-refuted because it creates its own antibodies against it.
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