The Swiss Socialist party "deplored" the result, saying that better protection against passive smoking would have "incontestably been a major step in the improvement of (workers') conditions".
Yet it has one incontestably beneficial attribute: It requires the physician to study the true cost and benefits of a course of action, and then to present that data to the patient.
Romania, once a breadbasket, could with its 23m people be a powerhouse of south-eastern Europe, just as Poland with nearly 40m has emerged incontestably as the new dynamo of east-central Europe between Germany and Belarus-Russia.