Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Comment: The bully state reemerges in Andrew Lansley's anti-smoking crusade - politics.co.uk

Comment: The bully state reemerges in Andrew Lansley's anti-smoking crusade - politics.co.uk

Simon Clark is director of the smokers' group Forest and its sister campaign The Free Society.
Simon Clark is director of the smokers' group Forest and its sister campaign The Free Society.
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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