Alessandro Pertini (1896-1990) was an Italian politician, partisan and seventh President of the Republic. Few sentence awarded to him now a common sense in any country that has suffered totalitarian regimes "To the most perfect dictatorship, will always prefer an imperfect democracy." His political life was that of a seasoned negotiator, but before a militant gun in hand to be caught by fascism was declared the only responsible for the publication of which he was charged and ready to continue the anti-fascist struggle for socialism and freedom, despite the sentences would increase.
Well, Sandro Pertini was a heavy smoker. And, today I must say, a great politician and good person. Yes. A smoker can be excellent at what he does and worthy of confidence.
His irony in the sentence that begins this note, it would not be such in Mar del Plata 2011. Tolerance, wrapped with healthy arguments, is over. Intolerance is completed, as always, with an imaginary device.
Laws and, in this case, ordinances prohibiting smoking indoors, not based on serious scientific research, but in the cancellation of what was supposed evil. Extending this concept to people that in any case victims of addiction, their rights are curtailed.
The debate for or against these measures is lost in advance. There was no sense and will not. By this letter is both a humble requiem to a custom, which for many was more than that: part of our lives.
I mean the rictus of sitting in a coffee table to talk, read a newspaper, or just let time pass.
From April 25, and although it is unimaginable to those who are part of our life, that it as you live, is over. Cold numbers, Ordinance No. 20104, an article brief second "Prohibits smoking in all enclosed spaces with public access in the General Pueyrredón" made it possible.
The coffee effect is for a smoker, inseparable from the exciting process of taking a cigarette and turn it. For us, the gesture, and that's what we (ie smoking) is accompanied by that process. I have
to me that many of the best words spoken in the world, and the worst too, had not existed without this "moment." In fact the founding of the rock song considered national (although historiographical issues compete with "Rebel" the Beatniks) The raft was made in the bathroom of a cafe (The Pearl of 11 for youngsters)
not imagine John Lennon composing, for instance, Let it Be, without a cigarette. Not the best of Calamaro, no smoke. And Sandro, of course. And more direct with "A cigarette, rain and You", song by Alberto Cortez, with a very good version of Tito Rodriguez and I, the famous trio Los Panchos.
Café moisture "Guan Chestnut, is a cultural symbol of Buenos Aires, and more than a song. "Do not ask me if I wait long ago:
coffee is already cold and several ashtrays."
Rick Blaine (U.S. critic. States that uses How pseudonym the name of the character of Bogart in Casablanca), in its comments to the movie Smoke says, "This taste of coffee and cigarette at the window of the bar to see if she comes. On the radio a song by Tom Waits disarms us. And kill us. " Both Chestnut and Blaine, the interaction universalized coffee cigars, projecting into the love that hurts. And so. What man would not want a cigarette at a time like that? How about a coffee? How about both, while I spend these hours of terrifying nostalgia?
No one seems interesting at least a kind of Brooklyn and other flowers, more than twenty years away (1972 to 1995), involve the same a coffee / cigarettes and love? Otherwise is it not remarkable that the phrases about smoking are infinitely more intelligent, rich and severe than those that do not promote it?
From out of our history and early smoking is associated with creativity. I say "our" because, inquisitors, the snuff is Latin American. Both cocoa.
A list of writers addicted to snuff this note would become an unending catalog. In short: Paul Auster Charles Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Bertolt Brecht, Charles Bukowski, George Gordon Byron, Albert Camus, Camilo Jose Cela, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortazar John Dos Passos, Alexandre Dumas, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Jean Genet, Maxim Gorky, Jorge Guillén, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, James Joyce, José Lezama Lima, Clarice Lispector, Antonio Machado, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Jean Poquelin Moliere, Juan Carlos Onetti, Jose Ortega y Gasset, George Orwell, Cesare Pavese, Octavio Paz, Fernando Pessoa, Arthur Rimbaud, Andrés Rivera, Juan Rulfo, Bertrand Russell, George Sand, Jean Paul Sartre, Georges Simenon, Susan Sontag, Osvaldo Soriano, Italo Svevo, John RR Tolkien, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Boris Vian, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola.
determinants in? Y rotten extend to all creative fields, the result would be the same, even of some actors and actresses a strong impact on the market. Do you think it would give you humble kingdom meet Cameron Diaz or Sharon Stone? Well Get ready a good bar of menthol smokers and both are very attractive.
You think your kind of man who looks like Ben Afflek, Jude Law, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn or Colin Farrell, depending on your age or mode of attraction? Get ready to give you a good mouthwash, all of them, if they are all smokers.
I remember my first cigarette in a coffee company was in the Mitre bar and Alberti, still exists. Sure, discounting any childhood sweetheart, my first "statement" was cigarette in hand. Moreover, as this note is politically incorrect, I will confess that without a coffee and a cigarette, my sex life had been very poor. It was not, fortunately, although the cough is becoming more pronounced.
The loves and hates, occur at a time and place. Imagine the moment of my life outside the context of a coffee and a cigarette I find inappropriate, literally not mine.
is the context that sets and own these areas. In Smoke (American film directed by Wayne Wang in 1995, Cigars for Latin America, co-directed by writer Paul Auster) all about the cigar.
"Quitting smoking is easy. I already let a hundred times, "wrote Mark Twain (1835-1910).
More difficult is ironic now, when new forms of modernity promoted to the "health" as the center of "welfare." In general terms, it being understood economic analysis of the case (conversion of cigarette industries, worldwide increase in health spending, more hours worked per capita, etc) the "healthy" is an imposition of such a market, and it fragile, ephemeral. For Bauman, 'liquid modern society is one in which the terms of members' behavior change before that the modes of action be consolidated into habits and routines certain. " Ie there is no custom, location, identity.
believe, because that is supposed to think, that we are happier than a nineteenth century Chinese peasant, for example. It is true that our material conditions of life, even of the millions of neglected in the world, are qualitatively better. Some may think, at risk, which can qualitatively be more of a doubt.
The daily history of mankind reveals a common quest: love. Love Is Healthy? It seems that if judging by the hundreds of studies that prove it. "Our society makes love? It is obvious nearly convicted.
Therefore the criteria of "healthy" are at least an intellectual adventure. More years of life = greater good, would the new equation. "This is generalizable, that is, sociologically sustainable? Certainly not. Who guarantees that the greater longevity, greater happiness?
I read recently that the "discoverers" of niche markets are developing consumer offerings aimed at people over a hundred years. Current hundred, eighty are two or three decades ago, they pray.
From the conceptual point of view, in terms of state measures, it is easy to mumble the "politically correct" term so closely associated with a progressive local reasoning. Not without caution
warn you not see the character "progressive" these limitations to the consumption of snuff, to the extent that there are options for public places. Prohibit the consumption of snuff, but we are in favor of euthanasia. Actually this is logically untenable. If, as a "progressive" policies mean respect for individuality and choices, while protecting culture and diversity of the whole, these policies "antitabacales" are, quite simply, discrimination. I
. and no longer care. that such measures appear as politically correct, and are in the dermis, deep tiling. Are linked in practical terms, a "security measures" in the same conceptual basis, but on a different subject. It parallels with the mandatory use of seat belts (for adults) and the old, in the case of motorcycles. Modest resources (being extremely good with the adjective) "management" to ban what we can not control.
Does smoking is bad? Well, of course!! And kills. Mortality from cardiovascular diseases linked to smoking, but not only to be granted to him, representing about 30% worldwide., The first cause. The second with 25% are infectious diseases, together with 5% maternal mortality, are causing "associated" with poverty. Striking
that the main argument of the "restrictionist" is that cigarettes are the leading cause of death "avoidable" in the world. "Poverty is not avoidable? Here begins a compendium of platitudes and tilinguerías argumentative.
is difficult to enter into this discussion and numerical, and also not very conducive. INDEC for the main causes of death in Argentina continues to be "diseases of the circulatory system, divided into" Cerebrovascular diseases "and" other ", with others 80% of the total in that category, are in a slight decrease in percentage equal to the global rate, ie about 30%. But it is necessary to clarify that as "diseases of the circulatory system" enter an enormous amount of events, including the classic "cardio respiratory arrest," whose origin could be as varied as a goal, hypothermia and sleep in the street, or simply the end a fatigue life. Simultaneously, the death rate from accidents is growing at a rate close to 10%. Is it serious "ban" with this data?
never know - the measures that-why tiling has no recourse to other solutions. Does common sense did not indicate a simple measure such as that every business owner chooses to work with or without snuff snuff, all duly noted in the door?
In Spain, where similar measures were applied, which we copy going to sell gold trinkets, there was fierce opposition. Javier Marias, a writer of that nationality saying "There is no greater humiliation for 30% of the population, some 14 million people, no less, that being excluded from society by having a custom-or defect, both da- to which the State itself which represent encouraged us for decades. "
If health care is concerned, it is noteworthy that the" politically correct "have not done anything in our city to control the sale of food known as Fast Food.
In 2004 American filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, released a documentary called "Super Size Me", translated as "Super engórdame" for Latin America. In 30 days he and the director is fed only local Mc'Donalds with three meals a day. The health effects were outrageous: mood changes, impotence, liver damage, a significant increase of cholesterol, etc.
filmmaker himself concluded that the prohibition should be even higher than the cigarette. Sure
face to Mc'Donalds not a task for politicians mid-flight. "Mc Libel" is another documentary by Franny Armstrong which tells the story of the lawsuit filed by activists of Greenpeace Mc'Donalds for defamation.
Is not the junk food cause of a number of obvious health problems? Not the cholesterol - the product of systematic intake of these foods, one of the causes of the plague for "problems in the circulatory system? Should not at least be bound to these places possess an identification of this warning?. We remember that tango
so popular here and in the world., Café moisture. The coffee question was not fiction, like almost nothing in the tango. Today is a "mini" in Boyaca and Gaona, city of Buenos Aires Nobody saw their cultural value, for what. In a city ruled by tilingo with modern aesthetics, remember that someone there yearned to taste coffee and cigarette, it goes. Something similar happens
certainly in Mar del Plata (and we have the tiling course). First are the small coffee, and destroyed with the previous restrictive ordinance. Then they will be others, perhaps the most popular. Processes occur in the middle of restructuring, trying to save that which is impossible. And, in parallel, we will smoking, limited socially sanctioned, but we will. What is the meaning of these measures? W. Churchill, being young, managed to have lunch with Sir William Harcourt, "In the course of a conversation in me spews, I get, nothing modest role, I asked: What will happen then?. Dear Winston, "said the elder statesman Victorian-the experience of my long life has convinced me that things do not happen." (W. Churchill, The World Crisis.)
this memory is likely to have accompanied W. C throughout his political life. In his old age wrote "I spent most of my life trying to resolve issues that were solved with time alone."
How much wisdom, against such ignorance.
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