Nanny Watch

[caddyman]

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.

Comments

[fen-wolfchile.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that they'll be able to demonise drink in quite the same way they have smoking, not in the same sort of time scale anyway.

Oddly I'm currently finding myself amused by the advert that infers that penguins and guinea pigs can help me stop smoking!