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...or rather the lobbyists and politicians who push for them. Over the years working in the medical field, I've always known most of my peers become a little deranged on public health policies and disease prevention. It becomes a major obsession for many, particularly with the big three; tobacco, alcohol, and junk food. Much of the time you'll hear some wildly hyperbolic claims not backed by any scientific or medical research (e.g. "there's so safe limit of alcohol consumption" being a recent claim, and one mirrored by the PM regarding tobacco - a false claim).
But all proposals thought up become increasingly bizarre and so ill thought through that I believe they might just be utterly unhinged. To demonstrate, here's a list of proposals from a government backed report into making England "smoke-free" by 2030 - although, of course, smoking won't be criminalised so how this is to be achieved in just over 6 years is anyone's guess.58870097-12593527-Last_year_a_spokesman_for_the_Department_of_Health_said_that_tac-a-14_1696437579749.jpgYes, you read that correctly - an episode of Friends with Richard enjoying a cigar woulf have the same rating as hardcore pornography or the most violent of horror films. Despite having a government with the worst economic literacy in decades, they would like to pay pregnant women to "give-up" (not open to abuse at all), and even prescribe vapes on the NHS, which apparently has no more problems with priority cases and expenditure.
And the worst part - this could well be a popular set of measures.
But all proposals thought up become increasingly bizarre and so ill thought through that I believe they might just be utterly unhinged. To demonstrate, here's a list of proposals from a government backed report into making England "smoke-free" by 2030 - although, of course, smoking won't be criminalised so how this is to be achieved in just over 6 years is anyone's guess.58870097-12593527-Last_year_a_spokesman_for_the_Department_of_Health_said_that_tac-a-14_1696437579749.jpgYes, you read that correctly - an episode of Friends with Richard enjoying a cigar woulf have the same rating as hardcore pornography or the most violent of horror films. Despite having a government with the worst economic literacy in decades, they would like to pay pregnant women to "give-up" (not open to abuse at all), and even prescribe vapes on the NHS, which apparently has no more problems with priority cases and expenditure.
And the worst part - this could well be a popular set of measures.
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