![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nanny Watch
Remember when I said that having defeated the demon tobacco, the public smoking ban being the final nail in its coffin, that alcohol would be next on Nanny's agenda?
A great many of you poo-pooed me: "It's too deeply embedded in the culture", "No-one would stand for it", "Impossible to implement" "Throwing up all over the pavement isn't as bad as even looking at a cigarette" and so on and so forth. My prediction was that it would start with doom-laden pronouncements from health officials and move progressively through the governmental and media food chain until drinking is, if not banned, severely curtailed, taxed to death and beyond and bottles/cans covered in health warnings.
The sea change in public attitudes will take a generation or so to embed, but they will happen if the triumvirate of government, health professionals and media continue.
Drinking has now been successfully linked to cancer (looks like a familiar pattern emerging) and already the first calls have been made to introduce 'tobacco-style health warnings'
Auntie's story here.
A great many of you poo-pooed me: "It's too deeply embedded in the culture", "No-one would stand for it", "Impossible to implement" "Throwing up all over the pavement isn't as bad as even looking at a cigarette" and so on and so forth. My prediction was that it would start with doom-laden pronouncements from health officials and move progressively through the governmental and media food chain until drinking is, if not banned, severely curtailed, taxed to death and beyond and bottles/cans covered in health warnings.
The sea change in public attitudes will take a generation or so to embed, but they will happen if the triumvirate of government, health professionals and media continue.
Drinking has now been successfully linked to cancer (looks like a familiar pattern emerging) and already the first calls have been made to introduce 'tobacco-style health warnings'
Auntie's story here.
no subject
Oddly I'm currently finding myself amused by the advert that infers that penguins and guinea pigs can help me stop smoking!