http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/12/plain-cigarette-packaging-anger-ministers
I heard a BBC Radio 4 news item along similar lines. The quote that stands out:
"plain packaging legislation could cost jobs in manufacturing and in retail".
Yes - if people stop smoking fewer cigarettes will be sold and fewer cigarettes sold and smoked means fewer jobs in the related industries. Also, fewer cigarettes sold means less GDP.
Thus jobs and GDP are placed above health and human life in the "ecomoronic" system we operate in.
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