Not to say I told you so, but...

Remember when the smoking ban came in and I said that now the health Nazis had finally pinned that one down, they would be after alcohol next?

Remember when no-one believed me, because 'drinking is too deeply embedded' in the culture?

Well, here's the latest salvo: booze gives you cancer.

See, they take their time with these things. A generation or so is what campaigns of this sort are prepared to spend getting their way. They will probably run this one in tandem with fat/salt reduction programmes just to keep us off balance.

Not to say I told you so, but...

Remember when the smoking ban came in and I said that now the health Nazis had finally pinned that one down, they would be after alcohol next?

Remember when no-one believed me, because 'drinking is too deeply embedded' in the culture?

Well, here's the latest salvo: booze gives you cancer.

See, they take their time with these things. A generation or so is what campaigns of this sort are prepared to spend getting their way. They will probably run this one in tandem with fat/salt reduction programmes just to keep us off balance.