FRENCH smokers were in belligerent mood yesterday after the Government made what they described as an attack on a fundamental Gallic right when it moved to ban them from lighting up in public places.
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His announcement drew a furious reaction from Gérard Martini, the joint manager of L’Idéal Bar in central Paris. “We’re not going to accept it. We’re going to rebel. This is going to be a revolution,” said M Martini, walking across a thick layer of cigarette stubs.
You laugh, but I have a relative whose intellectual trek from the dark side to Conservatism began with the desire to defend smokers' rights. Curtsy: ninme.
