Opinion of New Zealand's laws on smoking

[Benjamin Frank]

Not that this is on smoking directly, but you might like this story about Pierre Trudeau regarding the right to make decisions for oneself. This is from the book 'Just Watch Me' 1968-2000 by John English.

"One day in February 1969, they (he and his girlfriend Jennifer Rae) were in the kitchen preparing smoked oysters on wheat thins as an hor's d'oeurvre before a dinner for four. Jennifer prepared the plate and squeezed some lemon juice over the oysters. Trudeau exploded, demanded to know what she was doing..."The reason I am irritated is that each person has the right to decide whether he or she wants to have lemon juice on the oysters. You have taken that right away.""

Of course, there are general limits in most societies. While most might agree here with Trudeau's principles here (even if he was taking it to extremes), most here and elsewhere probably would be uncomfortable with Pierre Trudeau being around 50 at this time, while Jennifer Rae (the sister of Bob Rae who later became Premier of Ontario) was around 20.