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Monday, February 20, 2012 at 10:12 In addition to the Today programme on Radio 4, Chris Snowdon also discussed plain packaging on Five Live.
He has also written this piece for Conservative Home: Plain packaging proposals for cigarettes may actually harm the public. You can comment.
See also: Plain packing could fuel youth smoking, opponents warn (Politics.co.uk)
The London Evening Standard has the best headline – Plain cigarette packets 'illiberal'!
The story has also appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Sun, Daily Star, Metro, Scotsman, Herald, Liverpool Echo and many more. No sign of it in the Guardian or Independent, though. BBC News online has also ignored the report – although they found space for a
City AM has this report – Plain cigarette packets could damage health. It includes a quote from Anegla Harbutt of Hands Off Our Packs.
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PS. Click here to listen to Chris Snowdon and Deborah Arnott on the Today programme this mornning.
Reader Comments (2)
just wondering how the plain packaging effects
pipe tobacco . pack of cigars and nasal snuff ???
I wish these antis would just grow up!!! How childish plain packs. Mind you its for the little children who buy fags from vending machines. Lord help us if you belive that nonsense.