Let's not, comrade, one at a time!

Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin in his blog spoke out for a complete ban on smoking on trains. Such a ban is valid in Ukraine and there ... they smoke in trains. Because against bad laws, as you know ... Of course, Russia signed the anti -tobacco convention of WHO, but why torture passengers on our vast expanses? In general, it is not entirely clear why Russia is a struggle against smoking. Well, not the population, the government saves from this "plague"?

Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin in his blog spoke out for a complete ban on smoking on trains. The head of the company asked readers of his blog to make constructive proposals on this issue.

Yakunin emphasizes that in order to combat smoking in Russia, more stringent laws and more severe responsibility for their violation are needed. “My position on the ban on smoking on trains is unambiguous,” the head of the Russian Railways said. At the same time, according to him, the company’s employees are “these are not law enforcement agencies that can bring the citizen to administrative responsibility for smoking in the wrong place.” Yakunin emphasized that the Russian Railways has not yet been able to cope with this problem.

The President of Russian Railways spoke about the positive experience of combating smoking in the "Sapsans". “The very design of these trains does not imply the possibility of smoking - they do not have vestibules,” he emphasized. Smoking in the "Sapsans" was completely banned.

Recently, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, advocated a complete ban on smoking in public places. “The restaurateurs sobs that their business will die if smoking is banned in restaurants, they have no soil under them. It is necessary to prohibit smoking in all public places, ”Onishchenko said. In addition, Onishchenko was confused by the number of smoking Russians - the number of adult smoking Russians reached 39.1 percent, about 35 percent are subjected to passive smoking, which, as the head of Rospotrebnadzor noted, is even more dangerous. “At the age of 19 to 44, 7 out of 10 men and 4 out of 10 women are smoked,” Onishchenko said. According to the May survey of VTsIOM, half of ours never smoked (51%). 41% of Russians are smokers: 21% smoke one pack per day and even more, 16% - several cigarettes per day, 4% - several cigarettes per week or month. The rest are quit.

The connection of Russia to the fight against smoking is due to the signing of framework anti -tobacco documents of the World Health Organization. The ban on smoking in certain places is one of the requirements of the framework of the fight against tobacco. Having signed this convention in 2008, Russia automatically confirmed its consent with measures set forth and provided for in the framework of this convention, which the participating states should be accepted.

The arguments “for” and “against” the ban on smoking in trains are clear. Supporters of the ban are pushing that in the train (and other transport), non -smoker citizens have nowhere to go from the smoke harmful to their health. True, the tobacco companies once studied passive smoking quite a lot and came to the conclusion - or “conclusion” - that this is a myth. Opponents especially rest on the fact that at Russian spaces and prices for nicotin-containing plasters and chewing, smokers on the Vladivostok-Chita train will begin to poison the life of others and without any cigarettes. In addition, this is an additional incentive not to comply with prohibitions. In some places in the capitalist West, however, smoking wagons were invented, but this is so, lyrics ...

The prohibitions are good when they are the result of a consensus, and not voluntarism (a call to discuss on a blog is not even a simulation of a consensus search). In the case when prohibitive measures are inadequate from the point of view of the statistically significant part of the society they will not be executed. Which, by the way, removes the taboo from the rest of the prohibitions - delegimizes them. This must be remembered that with the introduction of the next licensing, that with increasing taxes, that when overclocking mass protests. So it was already in Ukraine - there the ban on smoking on trains is already operating and not respected. Although fines are called high.

True, “formalists” from among our officials and legislators do not want to know this principle. Hence the results of the fight against corruption, which the president recently voiced, the excellent legislative framework has been created, and otherwise it is bad.

About corruption is also an obvious reasoning. The bribery of trains will increase, the income of guides and police will increase. Russian Railways formally - only harm.

With airplanes or public transport, the situation is in principle different - there the non -smoker passenger has nowhere to go from smoke. And then-back in the early 2000s, it was possible to smoke on trans-atlantic flights, and the general director of Aeroflot, even after the ban on smoking a number of airlines, spoke out in the spirit of "we will prohibit nothing." However, they were banned.

Finally, one thing is generally incomprehensible: why Russia is a struggle against smoking. The struggle of the government for the health of their own citizens does not even sound naive, it sounds mad. Rather, one could believe in personal hostility to the tobacco smoke of one of the high-ranking officials. President Medvedev and many do not smoke in his defeat, and Prime Minister Putin does not smoke. And the ex-head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin, is completely smoking.

In the world, the fight against smoking began with the superprofits of tobacco companies, which pharmaceutical corporations decided to "defend". At least this is the version of conspiracy therapists (it is possible that it is invented in tobacco companies). In Russia, the corresponding pharmaceuticals, exactly like the tobacco industry belong to foreigners. It is unclear to the Russian government and the state -owned hospitals controlled by it. Again, is it possible to assume that, moreover, some tobackers are fighting others,

In general, in a purely ethical plane, the problem has almost no solution. Disputes of lobbyists about the degree of harm to tobacco in the West continue. “Subjects of justice will say that the stigmatization of smokers, like any other social group, is monstrous, as it gives rise to discrimination. They may object that public branding of smokers protects non -smokers from physical and psychological infection. Indeed, measures directed against passive smoking, which can cause different diseases, are necessary. Thus, stigmatization can be considered legitimate if it performs the function of protection. But the situation changes when a fear of psychological infection arises. People who avoid communication with smokers only because of prejudices (smokers do not have willpower, they play with their lives) can be put on a par with those who treat black and other stigmatized groups. In this case, stigmatization leads to discrimination and is unacceptable, ”writes Patrick W. Corrigan in the article “ The Cowboy of the Malborough and Stygmatization of Smoking ”. So in our discriminated Dream Indians, Yakunin wants to pick up the vestibules-reservations.