tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post7263752301402211532..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Curious developments in HungaryHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-71423636085526008242013-07-04T18:41:32.532+01:002013-07-04T18:41:32.532+01:00I was going to agree with you until that last comm...I was going to agree with you until that last comment, Ian. But I expect that is why you put it in. After all, it is hardly relevant to anything. Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-26815505570933847512013-07-04T15:00:35.976+01:002013-07-04T15:00:35.976+01:00The whole business of tobacco control is fraught w...The whole business of tobacco control is fraught with corruption. For instance the new EU tobacco products directive which will effectively outlaw e-cigs is not a little to do with the lobbying of big pharma trying to defend their nicotine replacement therapy business.<br /><br />It could never be any other way of course, when you try and deprive large numbers of people of a product they want, as has been demonstrated throughout history.<br /><br />I see Theresa May, against the advise of her advisers (why bother having them) is banning khat. Opening up a great opportunity for Al-Qaeda to get a new funding stream as the trade is forced underground.<br /><br />Bring back smoky pubs I say.Ian Reidnoreply@blogger.com