Tuesday, 15, Mar 2011 03:05
Think tanks, pressure groups and Conservative activists are appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco.
By Simon Clark Health secretary Andrew Lansley must have been confident when he strode to work on No Smoking Day last week that his long-awaited Tobacco Control Plan would attract little criticism.
Tobacco, after all, is an easy target, and smokers - well, who cares about them? They're just a dwindling minority - deluded, addicted and dirty. No room for them in David Cameron's 'big society'.
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