Sunday, 27 September 2009

Are The Righteous Worried?


I mean they have their smoking ban, they won didn't they. Why keep banging on about it and seeking to justify the ban, it's here.

Or could it be they sense some backsliding, maybe a hint of relaxation, the news that other European countries are non implementing a blanket ban or even just saying "No" and that will never do.

From The Times today we have massive cockend Professor John Britton discussing;

Why are smoking bans so good at cutting heart attack rates?

Well actually they may not be Professor and you could just be making it all up.

You see gone are the days when you could release reports and figures at will, to prove whatever hypothesis you wished and the public would lap it up and believe what ever codswallop you spouted at face value.

It fact it on took a couple of bloggers I read, only a few minutes to demolish the lofty claims in the report that you mention.

Dick Puddlecoat - Today You will Hear And Watch This Bullshit On The BBC

Mark Wadsworth - More Fake Statistics

I think they are begining to see their control slipping away and they don't like it. Let's hope so anyway.

NOTE: The Times article mentions Professor John Britton is the director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies at the University of Nottingham.

What it doesn't mention is that he is a Trustee for ASH , so paid from the government titty.

It's always about control , never believe anything different.
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3 comments:

  1. At the risk of incurring your wrath, I went to the fair today with my daughter and 2 friends - for the first year it is smoke free. And what a delight it was! No more smoke wafting out as we watch displays. No more 'sorry, love, didn't see you' as a lit but goes dangerously close to daughter's eyes by someone walking out into the crowd and pointing with cigarette hand. Twas a breath of fresh air!

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  2. No wrath here, if someone wants to make an event , restaurant, pub etc. smoke free. Fair play to them, go ahead but it should be the owners decision, not the governments.

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  3. paid from the government titty.

    A wonderful turn of phrase!


    Gordon has just been on the BBC boasting that British regulation is the toughest in the world .. .. .. .. .. he was talking about banking regulation but he does like that soundbite.

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