"Fat and Fags
It’s not just the tax that smokers pay that’s paradoxical,
Beth (London), METROtalk, 8 March. Smoking creates wok for those who make,
advertise and sell smoking and stop-smoking products, for the lobbyists - both
pro and anti, therapists and advisers to help people give up, and medical staff
to treat those made ill by smoking. Unhealthy food has similar contradictions,
plus, topically, McDonald’s at the Olympics (page 30). If ‘fat and fags’ mean
more jobs and tax paid, are they good things? Until we accept as a society that
only jobs that are socially constructive should be done, we will have
this problem."
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