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As with drunk driving thirty years ago, there seems to be a concerted attack going on against smoking in Britain at the moment. But I can't help feeling cigs aren't as bad as that.
In particular, the statistics to do with how many people die per annum as a result of smoking appear to assume that they'd have carried on indefinitely otherwise. At the risk of being a bore, this is simply not the case.
My theory is that the state would rather have you rotting away in an old folks home, which, in England, you or your family have to pay for, rather than a cancer ward, which is the NHS's responsibility.
I'm not sure if there's anything more to it than that.
Aside, perhaps, from the issue of who's really benefited from the smoking ban; supermarket off-sales have apparently rocketed since, seeing as people seem to prefer to get leathered at home, where they can smoke, and drink dirt cheap booze to their heart's content, rather than brave the harsh weather outside their local. |
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