But it hasn't worked nearly so well in Paris. Perhaps that these rules have tremendous popular support here. The enforcement authorities, like the Maytag repairman, don't have much to do. Nonsmokers here are happy to assert their rights, confident that informal as well as formal norms will support them. Not so in Paris.
Control suits the industry well.
Make the kids associate smoking with rebellion, and perhaps they won't think about addiction, or wrinkles. Remind the media of their advertising revenue, and critical stories will get less play. Lock up the key legislative leaders and committees, and pro-health legislation, regardless of its potential support, never makes it to the agenda. Fragment, complicate and delay the lawsuits, and the plaintiffs never get their day in court. The industry needs control, because the truth is out there everywhere, always threatening to derail its best-laid plans.