Oops! Apologies are in order from me it appears, crossed lines there. I said that merely to point up that what I'd put before was obvious to all. Not that everyone
should know it, but that everyone
does know it.
As regards health warnings, unfortunately they pretty much are futile, but I wouldn't stop getting them out there. A handful of people will heed them, most won't.
Case in point: I gave up the smokes last year (for a woman as it happens, a radiographer, it didn't seem right!
), and I'm flying, off them 13 months now, never looked back yadda yadda cos it turns out I was never hooked on them in the first place (physiologically I mean).
But before that, and I'd consider myself not unintelligent, I was reading the health warnings on the packets for what, 20 years, without paying a blind bit of notice to what was said.
When the response to "Smoking kills" is "I know it does, I don't care", then that health warning ain't going to achieve a great deal.
One thing I might 'umbly suggest to those on high who dictate health policy is that they might get a measure of consistency in their message. It's pretty much a standing joke that health fads come and go over time (brilliantly parodied by Harry Enfield some time ago as a 1940s GP "I prescibe no exercise and plenty of sausages. Cigarette?"), so much so that I would suggest many people now favour them all with an arched eyebrow.
I mean, for feck sake, only a short while after the 5-a-day message has become a mantra, we're now seeing ads telling us how all those fruit acids are dissolving our teeth. Is it any wonder people are skeptical?
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Oops! Apologies are in order from me it appears, crossed lines there. I said that merely to point up that what I'd put before was obvious to all. Not that everyone should know it, but that everyone does know it.
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