{"id":238642,"date":"2019-05-08T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238642"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:06:23","slug":"raise-a-glass-to-norway-health-minister-who-trusts-adults-to-choose-if-they-drink-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/raise-a-glass-to-norway-health-minister-who-trusts-adults-to-choose-if-they-drink-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise a glass to Norway health minister who trusts adults to choose if they drink &amp; smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>What we eat drink or smoke is not the business of any government.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Westerners are now so used to being nannied by the state that when an official tells us it\u2019s our choice how much to drink and smoke, we are shocked \u2013 and many are outraged. But maybe it\u2019s time to push back against all the nudging.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the new Norwegian Health Minister Sylvi Listhaug said that led to calls for her immediate resignation for \u201csetting public welfare back decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should be allowed to smoke, drink and eat as much red meat as much as they want,\u201d Listhaug said on national radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not plan to be the moral police, and will not tell people how to live their lives, but I intend to help people get information that forms the basis for making choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/458746-norway-listhaug-cigarettes-alcohol\/?fbclid=IwAR0WleU55KxxH-m9Z2WNZf-tX5lVh_fuWGRsKUzQ75Cv8Nnwj1X-o_JwDdI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/458746-norway-listhaug-cigarettes-alcohol\/?fbclid=IwAR0WleU55KxxH-m9Z2WNZf-tX5lVh_fuWGRsKUzQ75Cv8Nnwj1X-o_JwDdI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: What we eat drink or smoke is not the business of any government. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}