Attaboy

I know everyone is going to find it funny that the Cuban government is instituting a smoking ban, especially since the primary export of that nation is the cigar. Except to America, of course. But that’s another post…

Beyond the joke about the smoking ban and cigars, we learn some other incredible facts about fidel’s Worker’s Paradise. For example:

Cubans are no longer allowed to smoke in air-conditioned areas, offices, schools and sports centers in an island-wide health drive by President Ffidel Ccastro’s government.

Huh? Air conditioning? In Cuba? Val, help me out here…I though the electricity was only on down there about four hours each day. My uneducated guess would be that when the A/C does come on, it’s at night and during the coldest time of the year. You know, in order to save electricity. Based on that theory, that means you should still be able to smoke anywhere there is an A/C unit, since it probably won’t be operating anyway.

Cigarette vending machines have been banned outright as part of the drive.

Well, that’s probably not going to matter much, since most of the citizens of Cuba don’t have enough money to put in those machines anyway, right?

At the How Yueng restaurant in central Havana, where the only Chinese dish is fried rice, no-smoking signs have been up for five years, but that did not deter customers from smoking.

Doesn’t it figure that if you put two commie cultures together, Chinese and Cuban, that they’d somehow managed to screw up something as simple as creating a menu for a Chinese restaurant that actually included Chinese dishes? Wait, I have an idea: maybe we can call Victor up in Minneapolis and convince him to add some moo goo gai pan and General Tso’s chicken to his menu.

More than half of Cuban adults smoke and lung cancer is a major cause of death in the island nation of 11 million.

Many Cubans are skeptical that the new regulations will stick in a country where smoking is so ingrained that the Communist state still hands out subsidized cigarettes with ration books to Cubans over the age of 50.

Okay, now I’ve figured it out: lung cancer is a major cause of death among Cubans, but the government issues free smokes to people over fifty. Such as to people who have probably been smoking most of their lives already. People who, at age fifty, are prime candidates to develop lung cancer.

You see, this is how Cuba can claim to be able to provide free health care to all its citizens. You wait until people are past middle age, then encourage them to smoke, making them victims of a disease that will eventually kill them. This makes free health care more available to the younger people who haven’t developed cancer yet. fidel is such a genius.

I think it’s about time those Cubans had the same nanny state we have up here.