Cigarette pack pictures: horror porn for prigs
Read Mick Hume in The Times (London) on how the state wants to nationalise our bodies as well as the banks.
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Wednesday 1 October:
‘It’s not just the banks. Today marks the next stage in the campaign to nationalise our bodies. Not content with those big written warnings on packets – Smoking Kills/Causes Impotence/Destabilises the Financial System, etc – the authorities are replacing them from today with stark pictures of what smoking can do: a tar-blackened lung, a cancerous throat, rotten teeth, open-heart surgery and even a corpse…’
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