Thursday, June 06, 2013

Smoking: a question


Are we to give up smoking because it "causes fatal diseases", or welcome it because it provides much-needed tax revenue?

As Peter Cook said about his smoking, "I risk my life for my country on a daily basis." And it was liver disease that killed him.

Plain packaging for alcohol, anyone?

4 comments:

  1. Paddington6 June 2013 at 17:37

    So, should we encourage people to smoke, or not to? How about encouraging the elederly to smoke and drink heavily.

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  2. Sackerson7 June 2013 at 09:09

    Until they were rumbled recently, the government simply bribed hospitals to use the Liverpool Care Pathway to rid themselves of bed-blockers.

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  3. Paddington7 June 2013 at 15:29

    I had to look up 'Liverpool Care Pathway'. I have mixed feelings, since I am in favour of patient-initiated euthanasia.

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  4. Sackerson7 June 2013 at 16:35

    Quite a few cases here have been non-patient initiated. Perhaps in the US there would have been monstrous compensation laims to put a stop to secret State murder by neglect.

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