Smoking ban

As you reading abroad may already know, Finland passed a law which bans smoking indoors in restaurants, bars and pubs, from June 1st onwards. Damn. It's pretty clever to ease the law in when it's +25 degrees and the sun is shining and you can sit outside but it'll get interesting in December with -25 degrees and in the dark! I'm not a capitalist, but at this point I would have rather given each place the right to decide whether they allow smoking in their establishment or not. This would have at least given people an option. An illusion of democracy....

The law was justified by saying that the workers have a right to clean air. Of course they do! I'm not saying that people working in restaurants and bars should be forced to breathe smoke day in and day out, but they did choose the profession, so it couldn't have been THAT much af a surprise, huh!? Just a few years back the bars and pubs whent through a hellish remodeling to reduce smoke in the working area of staff in these places, and now they are left paying for it, after the new law made all this equipment unnecessary. Insane.

Small "quaint" pubs will fall flat on their faces, because they are still paying for the remodeling a few years back, now their clientele will start brewing their own stuff at home and the few that still come to the pub will smoke outside to the horror of people living above, passing by or anything. They will be evicted from their locations by October and that will be the end of it all.

I hate this kind of state-control. I should be able to ruin my life how ever I see fit.
F*!K