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Wed 10 Oct 2000An Irishman's DiaryIf ever there was a test of our sense of freedom, tobacco provides it. Cigarette-smoking is the most purposeless of vices. Cigarettes make you die, they make you smell, they make you poor: the drug of fools.So why should I feel such unease at the prospect of a new apparatus of tobacco censorship? Who else hears of the creation of a 15-strong secretariat in the newly created and splendidly named "Office of Tobacco Control" with a sinking heart? Is it not all a little familiar, a re-run of the days when the Government commanded that advertisements for condoms be scissored from incoming British magazines at source? Do bells not ring to remind you of boards of censorship, when the literary guardianship of Catholic faith and morals was done by State bodies banning anything that bore the fatal whiff of heresy?