Bit early for the likes of Simon Chapman to be adopting such a triumphant tone, don't you think?
Then again, the Australian academic and tobacco control activist is a master of propaganda.
My advice to Chapman and all the other anti-tobacco tweeters (including Alex Cunningham MP) is to calm down and wait for the outcome of the consultation analysis before jumping on bandwagons and smearing the opposition with wild or inaccurate allegations.
That analysis is being conducted by a company called Tonic Consultants which was awarded the contract by the Department of Health last month. As these documents show, Tonic is being paid £42,750 for a one-month contract that began on August 28 and terminates on September 28.
Meanwhile, what we are witnessing, on Twitter in particular, is no more than hot air from tobacco control activists who cannot stomach the fact that, for the first time, different sides of the debate have been given an equal opportunity to respond to a government consultation on tobacco.
It's called democracy but try telling them that.
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