You know what. It is one thing to inform people of the risk of cigarettes and to encourage them never to start and to help them quit (and for God's sake make the tobacco companies publish their ingredients already!) -- but it is entirely another thing to legislate them into what is effectively prohibition. Man has been smoking tobacco for thousands of years, and along comes the modern nanny state that is going to tell you exactly what you can and cannot do in every little corner of your life. It is getting way out of control.<p>Note, I say this irrespective of the TTIP, which I am pretty sure I would oppose (if I knew what it entailed) for the very same reasons.
Noam Chomsky write in "Deterring Democracy" that Thailand once banned tobacco imports to protect the health of its people, but was forced to back down because the US Federal Government - not a tobacco company - threatened Thailand with trade sanctions.