SUPPORT by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) for the introduction of Canadian-style graphic health warnings on tobacco products demonstrates how the anti-smoker agenda has descended into farce.
Such a development will not only be ignored by most smokers, it may actually encourage people, especially teenagers, to collect the different packets in order to prove how cool and fearless they are.
Once again, smokers are being singled out for special measures designed to belittle their lifestyle. Why not have images of rotting teeth on sweet packets, clogged up arteries on cake boxes, or bloated livers on bottles of alcohol?
If it's appropriate for smokers, the same surely applies to other consumers.
MARTIN BALL, Campaigns Director, FOREST, Palace Street, London SW1.
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