The government is to
announce an independent review of cigarette packaging in England, amid calls
for action to discourage young smokers.
David Cameron appeared to
distance himself from uniform packaging in July, saying further evidence was
needed to show whether it would be effective.
But No 10 sources said
the issue would be looked at again and the government was
"open-minded" about what to do.
Instead
of endlessly debating this, reviewing that and proposing the other, why don’t
the government jump a few steps down the line to where this is going and just
ban cigarettes and people smoking altogether? It would save a lot of time and
money and be a lot less tedious.
Obviously
you’d have to keep some cigarettes for existing smokers, as let’s face it no
matter what measures are introduced they’ll still smoke, but if the
government were to introduce a ban, let’s say from January 1st, then no
one from that point on, other than those already addicted, will be allowed to
smoke and in one fell swoop the problem will be solved.
If that
is done,which I'm well aware it won't but what the hell, we
won’t have to put up with anymore nonsense and droning from politicians about
how we'll review this and commission a study and gather evidence and blah blah blah,
it's much simpler than that if you really want to stop people smoking as much
as your rhetoric and actions so far suggest, then banning cigarettes is the
quickest, cheapest and most effective way of doing it.
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