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In Austria, the right-wing wants to bring back the "freedom to smoke."

The NYT reports.

As soon as [the far-right Freedom Party] entered a coalition government last year, [its leader, Heinz-Christian] Strache, vice chancellor and sports minister, promised to step back from a total [smoking] ban, saying he was acting “in the spirit of entrepreneurial freedom.”...

[It] fits neatly with the Freedom Party’s anti-establishment and quasi-libertarian tilt. “Freedom of choice” is the flip side of a far-right agenda that otherwise seems inclined to dictate to citizens, especially those from minorities, everything from whether they can wear head coverings to whom they should marry.

The "flip side" of something "fits neatly" with it? Something odd about that, but I'm assuming the NYT meant to say that. Here's an Austrian right-wing "freedom of choice" tweet:

Kannst nicht erfinden. pic.twitter.com/RQw6mfcdXU

— Florian Klenk (@florianklenk) February 21, 2018

Maybe anyone who wants to strongarm other people about some things has a flip side that's big on freedom about something else. It's the immoderate personality. Most of us go along with some, but not too much government regulation, and some but not to much individual freedom. But maybe it's the case that the extremist types don't want total freedom everywhere or pervasive government control of everything, but a combination of the two. What makes these extremists right or left is which things they choose for government and what they choose for the individual. Just a hypothesis.

The owner [of Café Fürth], Helmut Haller, 30... said he followed trends in the United States, Australia and Britain and never allowed smoking. “Global coffee culture is a nonsmoking culture,” he said. Still, he said he placed his business in the Viennese cafe tradition, which provided a meeting point for great figures of fine arts, literature and philosophy.

“In Austria we’re slower with change,” he said of his country’s position between Germany and the Balkans. He said that both some residents and visitors had their minds set on a certain idea of Vienna, described with the German word “Gemütlichkeit,” which translates as a broad feeling of comfort or cosiness.

But even many smokers who enjoy a chance to light up see in the ban an opportunity to set themselves free. One was Philippe Mayer, a 41-year-old musician... “It’s like a reward for waking up early,” Mr. Mayer said. But even as he enjoyed his cigarette, he, like his country, had mixed feelings about it. “Smoking gives me a kind of feeling like slavery,” he said. “It would be helpful if it were banned.”

Freedom is slavery!

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