Call me old-fashioned, but I'd always thought that selling a product which can give you 69 different kinds of cancer with absolutely no upside is far more deserving of the adjective. In fact, if trying to help people stop smoking is 'dangerous', then presumably promoting lung cancer as a lifestyle choice should be renamed too. Hmm, isn't there a buzz word that would fit the bill? One that has quite a bit of support. Assisted Suicide it is then. And it'll look nicer on the packet.
Monday, 1 February 2010
A fag by any other name
Quote of the Day surely goes to Forest, the people who bravely campaign on behalf of cigarette manufacturers to preserve our God-given right to kill ourselves, slowly. On the Today Programme this morning, in answer to the news that the government wants to cut the number of British smokers by half, spokesman Simon Clark called the proposal 'dangerous'.
