Featured Article of the Day
Forget some news article. If you read only one article today, make it Wikipedia’s Featured Article of the Day says everything you need to know:
Exhorbitant tobacco tax? Bans on smoking inside buildings? Ban on smoking on public transport? Ban on tobacco advertising? Increasing the minimum age for smoking? Anti-smoking propaganda? Spot the difference.
Bar the odd celebratory cigar, I’m not a smoker. In fact, I can’t quite understand why people like it. But, as an Arsenal fan, I could say the same about Tottenham Hotspurs (the eradication of them was quite high on Hitler’s ‘To Do’ list, too). It doesn’t mean I should take it into my own hands and force my morals onto someone else. You want to smoke? Fine, go ahead, but don’t come crying to me when you get lung cancer or heart disease or teeth that no girl would want to go near. To think that it’s the government’s role to enforce a national morality for the benefit of the people is rightly called ‘fascism’.
