Deputy Nicolas Dhuicq, 54 years old, drew parallels between the anticipated tobacco control legislation in upcoming health laws and youth jihadism. “Worried about a society without tobacco and without alcohol” and defending “a principle of pleasure” Dhuicq believes that “there is no human society without toxic consumption.”
Schooled as a psychiatrist, he denounced the “puritanism” of the fight for tobacco control. “You only speak to youth about death,” he accused the left, which according to him “leads the youth to be drawn to violent sagas in the Middle East.”
“I want a free world,” he added, while other UMP members against tobacco control applauded and nodded in approval.
In 2007, Dhuicq pushed for ending preferential pricing for prisoners, who were able to purchase food for a lower price than the public. Several months later he made a controversial speech associating gay parenting with terrorism. “A terrorist normally has a fault: most often he never met his father, he never knew his limits or a traditional parental framework, he never has the opportunity to know what is possible and impossible, what is good or bad,” he concluded.
