How in the State Duma they looked for a tobacco lobby

At the hearings in the State Duma Health Committee, deputies and participants in the event were engaged in looking for agents of "tobacco kings", who allegedly hid in parliament. Everyone feels-they are somewhere, somewhere nearby. After all, many have been waiting for this bill for more than 10 years. The fight against smoking in modern Russia was started back in 2001 (read more details below). The bill developed by the Ministry of Health on the protection of the population from the consequences of tobacco consumption "was approved by the government on October 18, and on October 30 was submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The document provides for a complete ban on smoking in public places, including playgrounds, stops and entrances, since 2015, as well as tightening the rules for trading tobacco products and increasing excise excise taxes. In addition, according to the draft law, it will not be possible to show cigarettes and the process of smoking in audiovisual works intended for children.

The chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko stated that if the deputies do not accept the "anti -tobacco" law, then he has the right as a voter to demand the dissolution of the Duma. After all, among other things, his dream should be fulfilled - placing photos of light smoker on packs of cigarettes. “I dream about it. I dream about it at night. It will be one of the brightest days in my life,” he said .

Now a rumor goes among the parliamentarians - a tobacco lobby is being formed in the State Duma, which will not give or, in extreme cases, at least delayed the adoption of the bill for an indefinite period for an indefinite period. Therefore, someone was already desperate and argues on a bottle of champagne, that the bill will not miss the lobby; Others, on the contrary, are not asleep and the lobby is awaiting in their offices fully armed - with the sign “Do not fit, kill”, or rather, “you know the anger of the judo”. And one practically took one with red -handed - he offered amendments to the bill, and even scared the most formidable weapons - rallies and rebels! And they do not like this in the Duma, this is a prohibited technique.

The shadow of suspicion was thrown by the leader of the Fair Russia faction Sergei Mironov. He acted first and fully supported the bill, but still proposed amendments: a complete ban on the sale of tobacco in kiosks less than 25 square meters. m he considers not quite correct. If the tired hard worker, after a hard day, can not buy a cigarette at a stop in the nearest stall, this will cause such discontent, which the whiteworms never dreamed of. Mironov vividly outlined paintings from his youth, recalling the tobacco riots in St. Petersburg in the late 80s: “Planted smokers, men are mostly working class-they were ready to go to Smolny and, if not so, were ready to go to Moscow. I remember how the then mayor Sobchak knocked out the wagons with the Makhorka, so that somehow this To prevent. He said that he would insist on amendments to the bill under discussion.

However, Sergey Mironov hastened to take away suspicions from himself and, after his speech, once again emphasized that he, as a wrestler with smoking, was fully supported, but worried about the difficult fate of the Russian stall - without trade in tobacco products, the small business may die.

Deputy Minister of Health Sergey Velmyykin did not talk about the law itself and moved to the nuances of the document. “We prohibit smoking in public places, including restaurants-they tell us that the revenue will fall because of this. People go to restaurants to smoke?” Velmyykin asked. “As far as I know, people come to a restaurant. The revenue goes from ready-made dishes and alcohol.” Another of the theses presented by the Ministry of Health - smokers will force to go to the street, and our country is northern, will be more often sick. "When we asked the Norwegian colleagues whether the diseases became more frequent (they work such a norm), they laughed and answered:" In Russia, like ours, there are winter clothes, and you can wear it before you go out to smoke. "The third claim is a ban on smoking in common areas, including the entrances. So, people will more often consume nicotine at home, smoking all around. Velmyykin. - This kind of campaigns lead to a general decrease in cigarette consumption, including at home. "

Velmyykin complained that he was accused of bribery with drug mafia - if people began to smoke less, then they would replace cigarettes with drugs. But he also accused of this a possible forming lobby, which is trying to slow down the promotion of healthcare initiatives with such rumors.

Deputy Dmitry Nosov (LDPR) began his speech with an expressive reading of the poem and, without changing the tone of the narrative, said: “Unfortunately, there are a number of our colleagues whose hands in the bloody nicotine mixture. I hang in my office a tablet not to disturb the tobacco kings”! "But what is it from the hall." There is no. " But those who worry will find out what the anger of the judoka is. I urge all deputies to follow my example, and if you do not see them (signs - approx. Ed.), Perhaps these people are lobbying tobacco kings. "Nosov is more decisively configured - he proposed to introduce a ban on smoking in public places not since 2015, but from 2014 to" meet the Olympics in Sochi by a non -smoking country. "And he also boasted that in parliament The LDPR is the most non -smoker faction, and if anyone caught the LDPROVS with a cigarette in his teeth, you can safely complain to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, he will make him the strictest reprimand.

At the parliamentary hearings there was a representative from the Public Chamber - the leader of the Maxim Maxim Mishchenko movement. He said that this law had been waiting for ten years and thanked Putin, Medvedev, Golikov. “This is a serious, courageous act that will remain in history,” said Mishchenko. “Mironov confirmed the fears that a tobacco lobby was being formed in the State Duma. I even argued on a bottle of champagne that the law would not pass. Now my chances have increased. They want to delay the law.” After his short speech, he invited the tennis player Vera Dushevin, who informed the assembled that she became a victim of a tobacco campaign: “I read the information on the Internet that I smoked and smoke. I was not true, I would never smoke. I’ll just leave it and sue, here I am now sitting, and I am supporting the bill, about which we are talking about which we are talking about which we are about. We say. "

Disputes about the bill continued until the evening. Businessmen accused parliamentarians of ignorance of life in Russia, parliamentarians - all around in participation in a tobacco lobby. Lawyer Sergei Pepelyaev, by virtue of the profession, suggested looking at the law as a set of regulatory acts: "The draft law from a legal point of view is a very weak work." The hall applauded. “The law requires very strong refinement,” he continued. “In this form, it will be ridiculed as the next campaign.”