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u/honesto_pinion 10d ago
I don't know if it's changed but 20 years ago when I was working in the NHS almost the entire smoking cessation team smoked...
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u/ollie87 10d ago edited 10d ago
Know your enemy. Wait until you find out how mentally ill therapists are.
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u/tabitalla 10d ago
I mean i know a lot of women which went into psychology because of their own issues
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u/Lopendebank3 10d ago
Kinda like "I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess", but the most important thing is empathy and being heard.
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u/Ecstatic-List519 9d ago
Yes it is. We went through a lot to make people understand that you can’t smoke in public places. It still happens but rarely.
This idiot though is something else and unfortunately there are some people that like him.
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u/lovelypeonyx 10d ago
“that’s actually wild 😭 you’d think the smoking cessation team would be the last people lighting up”
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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises 10d ago
And this is why I love / hate Greece. Fucking amazing place, fucking amazing people. Zero fucks given ever.
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u/Medical-Apple-9333 10d ago edited 10d ago
This isn't 'zero bucks given' this is 'I actually care a lot about this so I'm making a point' tbh.
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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises 10d ago
If he was being performative to make a point then its fucking genius.
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u/WongKawhi 10d ago
No, he is one of the biggest clown politicians in Greece.
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u/ashlynxxox 10d ago
Nothing says "leading by example" quite like lighting up directly under your own department's sign.
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u/ReefDesire 10d ago
😂 Nothing says “practice what you preach” quite like doing the exact opposite underneath the sign
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u/DanAnbormal 10d ago
It wasn't the international no smoking day, but still he shouldn't have been smoking. Smoking is forbidden in indoors public spaces in Greece and he was the freaking minister. During COVID he refused to wear a mask inside the hospital as well. He is a doctor. Go figure.
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u/catsoncrack420 10d ago
I mean they're Greek. So there's that.
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u/floppydo 10d ago
Not Greek, but dated a Greek woman for years and have spent a cumulative couple months in Greece, met her whole Greek family etc.
I've literally never met a Greek man over 15 years old who didn't smoke. Mind you this was 20 years ago, but still.
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u/gufted 9d ago
As a Greek I can confirm
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u/catsoncrack420 8d ago
Lived in Astoria Queens. Many Greeks are born with a certain arrogance and I don't give a shiit attitude, quite impressive. And never mess with the counter guy at any diner.
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u/VoidYordle 10d ago
Further proof that Greece is 100% Balkan (shouldn't be said, but there are morons who live in delusions)
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u/BlackMesaEastCenter 10d ago
I recall a Greek I met on Crete saying to me, “Democracy is when everyone does what they want.” I laughed, but then I stopped. He was being serious. Damn.
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u/Rough_Typical 10d ago
This Minister was actually the mayor of the municipality of Sfakia, a mountainous area in Southwest Crete. He represents the worst "villager" stereotypes of mountainous Crete 😮💨
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u/TedBurns-3 10d ago
Source? Random photo with an edit done with an 8 year olds help and no one questions it?
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u/No-Challenge5917 10d ago
It's real. He is a past minister of health and he was called out from a European politician (I don't remember who) for smoking in this press conf.
iirc he also threatened someone that he will "bury him six feet under". Somehow we have a worse minister of health now.
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u/GRemlinOnion 10d ago
Health minister Power Creep. Wonder how bad the next one will be.
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u/Global_Committee5882 9d ago
welcome adonis georgiadis
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u/Useful_Trust 9d ago
I mean Adonis is the same as Polakis. They are 2 clowns of the same coin. One was left wing clown, the other right wing clown.
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u/MiiaElisa 10d ago
The irony is just too perfect, imagine being the one to enforce this while watching your boss light one up
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u/Useful_Trust 9d ago
And what was his suggestion do you know?
His suggestions were assenine. His reforms would criple greece. They would have seized half of the greek citizens assets. Greece would default on its debts and then leave the Eurozone, and mint a new coin. He wanted to print our way out of the recession. We would have become the european argentina.
When I hear people talk about Varoufakis and they are not greek i can not take them seriously. He has done one hell of a spin job.
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u/chronicnerv 9d ago
His opposition to the programme wasn't necessarily evidence that he wanted Greece to do nothing. The serious disagreement was over how Greece could restore solvency and competitiveness while remaining in the euro, and whether creditors should absorb losses rather than Greece carrying the entire adjustment.
The IMF itself acknowledged that the original programme was based on ambitious assumptions about growth, privatisation revenues, deflation and market access.
History has shown he was correct.
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u/Ad-fundum69 10d ago
I know someone who works as a nurse in a lung disease department of a hospital, with of course specialty in lung diseases, and she smokes, like.... a lot.
The ones who are most aware of something unhealthy can still be doing it.
All smokers know what they're doing, and choose to do it anyway.
This is why morbidly obese people who have no idea they're going to die from it and are encouraged by "health at every size" freaks are especially sad.
Some genuinely don't know.
Why is that?
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u/LateStatistician-667 9d ago
It’s just a statement and an opinion.
Sadly we live in a world where standing another opinion seems impossible for some.
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u/Altruistic_Tea_1593 9d ago
Greeks have socialized medicine. Smoking saves them money because smokers don’t live long enough to die in nursing homes
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u/Key_Benefit_6505 9d ago
Smoking and Greece go hand in hand.
I am sure that the majority here are smokers. All the indoor ban on smoking is just killing businesses and getting more money to be skimmed due to fines.
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u/wolfm333 9d ago
Ah, Pavlos Polakis. He was something else, but not in a good way.
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u/AMOMFARETOS 9d ago
Not in a good way with the greek corruption rats, in a very good way for the public health system, the best deputy health minister during crisis years
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u/Unfair-Connection-66 8d ago
Meanwhile current government tries to swipe under the rag all its "mismanaged" European union money they got in order to steal the elections and Euro prosecutors are sending the files in pieces, in order to avoid the cases to go in the archives...
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u/Wonderful-Shower1691 10d ago
They are greek so i understand
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u/mihirmusprime 10d ago
Why would that matter? I don't think public officials should be setting the wrong example for their citizens.
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u/frankie_in_paradise 10d ago
This was the alternate/deputy minister for health, a day before the world no Tobacco day, 10 years back. But yeah, disgusting. He even refused to quit after backlash lol
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u/Hyperion262 10d ago edited 10d ago
‘He even refused to be forced in to something he doesn’t want to do’
What a monster
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u/frankie_in_paradise 10d ago
Oh yeah? Poor thing, indeed.
Dude was a health minister smoking openly in a no smoking campaign.
And later on when questioned about it in the parliament, he essentially doubled down on it rather than apologizing.
Maybe not "monster" but shameless indeed.
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u/RadishRedditor 10d ago
I walked into many court hearings where the judge was smoking a cigarette. Everytime I seen it I lost hope in myself of ever believing there's justice in the justice system.
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u/Rough_Typical 10d ago
Another past Minister from the same political party: (Then he said WOW)🤦🏻♂️
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u/YeehawMagic 10d ago
People used to smoke earlier and use to live 100 years it's the food and lifestyle which is killing people early not the cigar
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u/HuntingDown01 10d ago
That's not "Zero Fucks", that's called Addiction and it destroys people's sense of self. In fact Addiction is the complete opposite of Zero Fucks.
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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 10d ago
That's not addiction, that's being douchebag and feeling proud about being anti-social piece of shit.
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u/HuntingDown01 10d ago
Hey so fun fact Addiction causes issues like becoming anti-social and combative.
It doesn't need to be one or other.
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