Smoking: Progress without principles

- (Guardian.co.uk) - 1 months ago...

De Quincey was guessing when he said that a quarter of all human misery was toothache, but smoking can reliably be said to account for around one-seventh of UK deaths. Tobacco is a very big deal, and recent success in reducing smoking will do infinitely more for health than all the NHS reforms which have caused more political heat. When history is written, the smoking ban – together with civil partnerships, perhaps – could well loom larger than anything else New Labour did, just as t...