Why I've Joined the Nanny Tendency ; the Government Wants to Ban Smoking in Public - but That Sits Oddly with Its Other Mixed Messages
Evening Standard - London › June 22, 2005
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A PROPOSED smoking ban in public places, according to Caroline Flint, the new public health minister, will be subject to something called an "intelligence-led" approach.
Oh wouldn't it be nice of ministers did not speak like Daleks? An "intelligence-led " approach, lest you confuse it with a commitment to being intelligent (though that would be nice) is jargon more usually applied to helping track down major criminals or terrorist gangs.See the full content of this document
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Why I've Joined the Nanny Tendency ; the Government Wants to Ban Smoking in Public - but That Sits Oddly with Its Other Mixed Messages
But even Ms Flint's persecution of the English language cannot put me off.
To my own surprise, I have joined the nanny tendency on this one.Whether we smoke or not, it has dawned on us all that passive smoking is harmful as well as unpleasant. Without consciously hav...See the full content of this document
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