Saturday, 12 March 2011

The vested interests of the anti-smoking lobby

Regular visitors to this blog will no doubt have heard about the government's new consultation paper, 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England'. Among other things, the paper demands the introduction of a display ban on all tobacco products and touts the possibility of plain packaging regulations being introduced in the near future. The paper has, unsurprisingly, been warmly welcomed by anti-smoking campaigners like Deborah Arnott from Action on Smoking and Health who have expressed their "delighted that this Government is putting us on track to be the first European country tobacco to put tobacco in plain...

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