Category Archives: smoking

Tobacco control how daft can it get

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The denormalisation of smoking continues with even candy cigarettes being restricted to over 18s, voluntarily of course – but then if even the sight of a packet of cigarettes can instantly cause a child to develop a 60 a day habit what perils being able to put a candy fag in a childs mouth. Of course this could be a tongue in cheek jibe on behalf of the retailer of sweeties, as after all if they were serious about protecting the children they wouldn’t sell any of the sweets to people under 60 without government authorization. Link to the site … Continue reading →

Ban that sort of thing

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I keep trying to find time to write an article about the latest moves from the new puritans and their ongoing attempts to ban anything they consider immoral, or that any of the rest of us consider fun. The problem is the proposals, white papers briefings and everything else are coming in such a torrent that I can’t keep up. Thankfully there are the likes of Dick Puddlecote and LegIron who do a much better job. Despite that I’m going to try and do a bit of a round up just so I know where we were a week or … Continue reading →

In the pay of the bogey man

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It’s too hot at the moment to write anything much so instead I’ll just share a couple of links, first from the ever informative Katabasis, it’d seem that evil big oil profits quite nicely from global warming alarmism thank you very much. Whilst on the subject of the bogey may I also draw your attention to this event Obviously you’ll only want to go to such an event if you’re in the pay of both big tobacco and big alcohol. Sadly I won’t be able to attend as I’ll be at a “big oil” sponsored event at the time doing … Continue reading →