Uruguay's smoking ban and the Carnation Revolution

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

We first hear about Uruguay’s tale of David v Goliath - when a tobacco giant took South America's second-smallest country to court over its anti-smoking laws.

Uruguay’s former public health minister María Julia Muñoz describes the significance of the ban and its fallout.

And we shed some light on the wider history of the use of tobacco, its long and controversial history, with Dr Sarah Inskip, a bio-archaeologist at the University of Leicester in the UK.

Plus, the largest search operation in aviation history - ten years on, little is known of the fate of MH370 and the 239 people on board.

Also, Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe on how her sewing school in northern Uganda served as a place of rehabilitation for child soldiers escaping Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance Army.

Then, the Carnation Revolution - how Europe’s longest-surviving authoritarian regime was toppled in a day, with barely a drop of blood spilled.

Finally, in August and September 1939, tens of thousands of children began to be evacuated from Paris. Colette Martel, who was nine at the time, describes how a pair of clogs made her feel welcome.

Contributors: María Julia Muñoz - Uruguay’s former public health minister. Dr Sarah Inskip - A bio-archaeologist at the University of Leicester in the UK. Ghyslain Wattrelos - Whose wife and two children were on flight MH370. Adelino Gomes - Witness of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. Colette Martel - Child evacuee in World War Two.

(Photo: An anti-tobacco installation in Montevideo. Credit: Reuters/ Pablo La Rosa)

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0:00.0	Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well being.
0:05.0	Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:20.7	the past brought to life by those who were there. This week, 10 years on, the pain of unanswered
0:26.5	questions over the fate of MH370.
0:29.7	A little near. Something happened to a flight of your family. This flight disappeared and we don't know what
0:36.4	happened. So I was the last one actually to know what happened to his plane.
0:40.8	After decades of trauma, the rehabilitation of Joseph Conyers child soldiers in Uganda.
0:47.0	These girls were actually trained to use machine guns to destroy life.
0:51.0	I thought they need to use sewing machines to mend their own brokenness.
0:56.0	Plus the Second World War child evacuees from Paris and 50 years on Portugal's Carnation Revolution remembered.
1:05.4	But before all that a tale of David versus Goliath.
1:08.8	This takes us to Uruguay, one of the first countries in the world, to try to ban smoking.
1:14.7	But in 2010, the tobacco giant Philip Morris took the country to court, claiming the measures
1:19.6	it was seeking to introduce devalued its investments. Grace Livingston has been finding out
1:24.8	about this epic government versus big business story.
1:28.0	No fumens your gasa.
1:30.0	No fumbe entro of the casa.
1:32.0	Me in the house. Don't smoke in the house or the office or the kitchen, they're singing.
1:40.0	It was part of a government anti-smoking drive, but not long after its launch, it hit an obstacle.
1:48.1	It was a very disagreeable surprise. Maria Julio Munoz was Uruguay's Minister of Public Health.
1:57.0	I was in the office.
2:00.0	Actually, we found out about it from the media. Press reports were arriving at the ministry.
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