Saturday, June 25, 2011

‘Do as You’re Told’: Here‘s How Australian Tobacco Companies Are Fighting the ’Nanny State’


I’m not a smoker!

However, I feel for people who are because they have become social pariahs thanks to the workings activists and the Nanny State.

If smoking is so terrible, why not totally ban the sale of it? Maybe the loss of tax revenue for the government has something to do with it?

Hmm!


The Blaze

Recently The Blaze reported on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration releasing nine new and grotesque warning labels for cigarette packs. The labels feature graphic images, including corpses, rotting teeth and gums, and a man with a tracheotomy smoking, along with the phrases “Smoking can kill you” and “Cigarettes cause cancer.”

But while proponents of the anti-smoking campaign see this as a victory in the public health arena, others fear it is a major step towards an all-intrusive Nanny State. It makes one wonder if they will start displaying photos of a cirrhosised liver on liquor bottles, or a list of all diabetes-related ailments on a box of Twinkies.


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