Get ready for the next wave of puritanical social engineering:
Alcohol - BBC NEWS | UK | Plan to raise price of alcohol
Obesity - BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | GPs vote against 'chocolate tax'
Although "slippery slope" arguments are a logical fallacy (Slippery slope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), I can't help but feel that the degree to which cigarette smoking has been demonised has been the trailblazer for all sorts of lifestyle condemnations...
Seems to me that we're talking ourselves into a life of hard work, minimum enjoyment and maximum productivity for "the betterment of society". Battery chickens would be proud...
Alcohol - BBC NEWS | UK | Plan to raise price of alcohol
Obesity - BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | GPs vote against 'chocolate tax'
Although "slippery slope" arguments are a logical fallacy (Slippery slope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), I can't help but feel that the degree to which cigarette smoking has been demonised has been the trailblazer for all sorts of lifestyle condemnations...
Seems to me that we're talking ourselves into a life of hard work, minimum enjoyment and maximum productivity for "the betterment of society". Battery chickens would be proud...