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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
Because Ireland is not the backward, old fashioned, completely unhealthly place that cliches would have you believe.
The public overwhelmingly support this. So do I and I'm a smoker. It will be interesting when I get home (on my next trip in a couple of months) to go down the pub and not light up inside.
Why are you "shocked"? The Irish can't have a progressive Minister for Health?
Mr Mephisto
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mainly because the people I have met from Ireland, vacationers and nationals, act like sitting around in a pub, having a stout Guiness and smoking is all they do. BTW i never said they were backward, and unhealthy, but they do have tradition. And most Irish i know are all about drinking and smoking.
It's ok to think that a country is backward, old-fashioned, and unhealthy, I think America is and I live here. and this is no criticism on the Irish, either. I'm Scotch/Irish and still proud.