Margaret , we have known since the late 50s, early 60s that smoking is bad for you (it kills you) but what have successive Govts. done about it ?... the folks who we elect and are supposed to protect us ...nothing.....talk about abdication of public responsibility......no the sleazeballs have allowed, even promoted the sale of this product wholesale , with absolutly no conscience, after all it raises millions in tax revenue, the cynical swines have had the attitude okay , smoke , pay lots of tax and die early , it saves money in old age pensions that will never have to be paid .....keep the plebes working into their late 50s, early 60s then they will pass on , and every penny they have paid over the years for their retirements is ours to spend elsewhere on other pet projects.
Succesive Western/Northern European Govts. are in my view worse than any Columbian/Peruvian cocaine barons, since they have allowed this under the cloak of respectability, and have validated it as a legitimate revenue raising method .
The stuff should have been banned as a public poison when the first reports came out , and I speak as a smoker of over 40 years
ok rant over
