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Denmark: that tired old freedom thing again

d.simpson@iath.org

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A curious event took place recently in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, a country that prides itself on its support for freedom of speech and information. The concept is apparently of little interest to the tobacco industry when it comes to telling Danish smokers just how many serious risks they are taking, though warmly embraced when the industry is fighting to retain ways of promoting cigarettes. So long as one is not too fussy about the integrity of the arguments involved, most aspects of tobacco control policy can be framed as an invasion of personal freedoms. It was with such reasoning, presumably, that Venstres Ungdom, the largest and oldest political youth movement in Denmark, with about 2000 members and eight members of parliament, recently held the event in question.

Venstre Ungdom, literally meaning "left youth", is akin to a youth wing of Venstre, the political party of the prime minister . . . [Full text of this article]